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Activision Blizzard shares soared Friday morning, following a better-than expected earnings report late Thursday due to strong game sales over the holidays, particularly of its Call of Duty series.
A disclosure on the Hong Kong stock exchange revealed Thursday that Google may acquire a nearly 6% stake in China's Lenovo Group for $750 million. But if Google wants out of hardware business, how...
ThinkstockA newly released study from the Tax Foundation suggests that the marginal effective tax rate on corporate investment is 35.3%. That makes it the highest marginal effective rate of all...
ThinkstockThe latest monthly Challenger, Gray and Christmas job cuts survey finds layoffs jumped nearly 50% in January, after hitting a 13-year-low in December. U.S.-based employers announced plans...
A landmark settlement has been reached in the high-profile case between Google and EU antitrust regulators. Google has agreed to provide comparable prominence in online search results to services...
Shares of MasterCard tumbled 8% in early trading Friday after the company reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened. The report did not offer guidance.
Weyerhaeuser reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Friday. Earnings for both periods missed consensus estimates by a penny.
ThinkstockThe seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in the 17-nation eurozone was 12.0% in December, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. The rate has been stable...
United Parcel Service reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Thursday. UPS said it delivered 20 million packages per day during the fourth quarter.
Chinese manufacturing is in retreat for the first time in six months, according to HSBC. The purchasing managers' index, which tracks manufacturing activity in workshops and factories, fell from a...
Dow Chemical reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Wednesday, sending shares up sharply in premarket trading.
Strong U.S. sales of Ram pickups and Jeep Grand Cherokees helped Chrysler post its 10th-straight profitable quarter. 2013 saw the company's best performance since exiting bankruptcy in 2009.
DuPont reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday. Its board of directors also authorized a new $5 billion share repurchase program.
Charter Communications reportedly has agreed in principle to sell Time Warner Cable systems in New York City, North Carolina and New England to Comcast if its acquisition of Time Warner Cable...
Shares of Vodafone tumbled in premarket trading Monday after AT&T ended speculation that it would acquire the British telecom. The British telecom has put itself on a path to growth by...