Japan's Nikkei average ended at a 10-month high on Monday as domestic buying of Toshiba Corp and other blue chips picked up the slack in the absence of the foreigners who had powered Tokyo's recent...
Japanese stocks closed weaker on Friday, snapping a three-day rally, as fears of overheating and a drop on Wall Street after weak unemployment data spurred profit-taking on Hitachi Ltd and other...
04/07/2003
Indexes close shortened session lower on a sharp rise in unemployment rate, but end up for the week. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - U.S. stocks closed lower Thursday, a shortened trading day, following weak...
04/07/2003
An official report on Microsoft's powerful grip on the software market has revealed that US Justice Department officials "remain concerned" about the giant's compliance with its antitrust settlement...
04/07/2003
Stock futures headed sharply lower Thursday after the government's monthly employment report showed the economy lost 30,000 jobs last night and the unemployment rate jumped to 6.4 percent. At 8:32...
03/07/2003
Ernst & Young LLP agreed yesterday to pay $15 million to settle an Internal Revenue Service probe into the accounting firm's failure to disclose information about tax shelters it has sold to...
03/07/2003
Japan's Nikkei average clung to small gains by the close on Thursday after a roller-coaster ride that saw the market's greatest activity in 14 years. It rose over three percent to a 10-month high...
03/07/2003
U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in June for the fourth month in a row, but it did so only slightly while a rising number of new orders indicated the sector will expand in the second half of...
02/07/2003
The US has stopped military aid to 35 countries, several of them future EU members, after their refusal to sign bilateral agreements with Washington exempting US nationals from the International...
02/07/2003
Tokyo's Nikkei average jumped three percent on Wednesday, its biggest gain in seven months, to end at a nine-month high as heated activity and improving corporate sentiment encouraged investors to...
02/07/2003