U.S. stocks closed mixed in a volatile trading day on Tuesday, with the Dow eking out tiny gains amid uncertainties in Cyprus after its parliament rejected a proposed tax on bank deposits.
U.S. stocks extended losses in choppy trading on Monday following Friday's slip, as shock from Cyprus gave investors an excuse to sell off after recent strong equity rally.
U.S. stocks reversed the losses in morning session to close higher on Monday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting fresh intraday and closing highs ever for five sessions in a line and the Standard & Poor's 500-stock Index just 0.57 percent below its historical high.
U.S. stocks closed mixed Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average setting another all-time intraday high and closing high for a second day, boosted by an improving U.S. hiring market.
Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam delivered his budget speech in the parliament on Monday, saying that the government, in a bid to pursue quality growth, will further tighten foreign worker policies while supporting the drive to boost productivity.
"Lincoln" may have missed the gong for Best Picture at Sunday's Academy Awards but it took home a handy consolation as the biggest box-office hit of the nine nominees
The U.S. payroll taxes increase, taking effect at the beginning of January, cut the take-home pay of many working Americans and dampened consumption especially for the vulnerable.
Hong Kong Disneyland announced Monday that it earned a profit of 109 million HK dollars (14.06 million U.S. dollars) in the fiscal year ending Sept. 29, 2012, the first time the park recorded a profit since its opening in 2005.
Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S. fiscal house in order.
Japan External Trade Organization ( JETRO) released a report Tuesday saying that Japan's total trade with China dropped 3.3 percent to 333.664 billion U.S. dollars in 2012.
Back from his weekend Florida golf getaway, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday sounded an alarm on harms to be caused by the looming government spending cuts, but offered no concrete and long-term plan to put U.S. fiscal house in order.
Global miner BHP Billiton's boss Marius Kloppers will retire as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a director of the company on May 10 and Andrew Mackenzie will replace him as the mining giant's new CEO, the board of BHP Billiton announced on Wednesday.
U.S. stocks ended nearly flat Thursday as eurozone and Japan's economic contraction in the fourth quarter offset positive data of jobless claims in the United States.
U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, following a relatively weak week, amid worries about the debt-ridden euro area and the so-called sequester that would trigger automatic spending cuts for the United States starting from March.
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne said on Sunday that he expects to complete the merger of the Italian carmaker with its U.S. partner Chrysler in 2014.
The death toll in Australia's Queensland flood has risen to six after another body was found in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, on Wednesday, local media reported.
Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi was one more step closer to taking over Singapore-listed conglomerate Fraser and Neave (F&N) on Monday, as his rival bidder dropped out of a rare auction.
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