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Nokia is expected to announce its Q1 2013 earnings on April 18. The handset maker has come a long way since last year when its Symbian smartphone sales were falling fast and Windows Phone was relatively slow to pick up t...

Gold futures resumed their downward march Wednesday as pressure from a stronger dollar outweighed support from investors looking to re-enter the market after a record-setting plunge.

Until yesterday Apple had been holding strong after testing its support around $419 multiple times. Today that support has decisively broken with shares plunging more than 6% and briefly below $400 to as low as $398.11 t...

Copperwood, Skylar, and other hedge funds saw losses in March as a winter chill upended a bet on lower demand for natural gas.

A health-care lobbyist who is a former congressional aide provided a key tip to a political-intelligence firm about a coming change in government policy. The firm's subsequent alert to Wall Street clients sparked a surge...

Shares in the beleaguered credit card insurer plunged 45pc today.

The world has made little progress in reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies in the past 20 years, despite trillions in investment, the International Energy Agency said.

RBS Securities, the U.S. investment-banking arm of the U.K.-taxpayer-backed Royal Bank of Scotland Group, is jumping into the market for poorly performing American home loans.

Europe could take a decade to recover from the debt crisis, German central bank chief Jens Weidmann warns, as France slashes its growth forecast and Slovenia raises €1bn in a successful debt auction.

We compile our Global 2000 list by screening Interactive Data, Thomson Reuters Fundamentals and Worldscope databases via FactSet Research Systems for publicly traded companies. Using these databases as our primary source...

One world: one gigantic market place. This year, 63 countries have Global 2000 entries vs 51 in our inaugural list in 2004. Forbes Global 2000 are the biggest, most powerful listed companies in the world. Our justificati...

The current fall in the price of gold will, no doubt, bring out its critics who, will denigrate it as a relic of the past. The decline appears due mostly to speculative short-term trading and possibly, sales by banks rat...

Intense recent selling of gold and other precious metals resulted from a confluence of factors. Gold plunged 10 percent Monday, ending the session at about $1,350--down nearly 30 percent (and more than $500) from its hig...

An around the world look at Apple's most noteworthy retail stores.

This is likely the point where investors have finally made their peace with Apple's smartphone margins coming down sharply over the next 12 months - while the volumes disappoint simultaneously. As AAPL breaks to $411, se...

Schroders have replaced exiting star Richard Buxton with a manager from Jupiter. Emma Wall explains when it pays to follow the manager.

Don't just mindlessly chase stocks with the highest yields.

Yesterday, the S&P 500 index touched the 1573-1576 zone, which we can now treat as our new pivot resistance. In order for the "right shoulder" to build the market shouldn't go much above that in coming sessions. Support ...

An around the world look at Apple's most noteworthy retail stores.

Apple became the largest company in the world by market capitalization on the strength of innovation in mobile phones. Fortunately for Apple, the last several years there has been a consumer trend to treat their phones a...

Now that Tax Day is behind us, stocks should go up, for at least the next couple of weeks for three reasons.

Experienced driver Heikki Kovalainen is returning to Formula One to help the team that fired him, as Caterham bosses seek to bounce back after a poor start to the season.