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(Reuters) - The National Basketball Association's 29 team owners will likely vote to force Donald Sterling to sell the Los Angeles Clippers after he was banned for life for racist comments, some of the owners said on Wed...

Nobody knows how Microsoft will turn Nokia's struggling handset business around.

Shares of the two components of the new powerhouse are cheaper than those of Apple and Samsung.

US economy gaining momentum and fall in jobless claims come on back of trimming in pace of bond purchases

Despite huge growth in first-quarter revenue, Twitter's stock dropped 10 percent Tuesday.

(Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a top White House legislative priority, a bill to increase the federal minimum wage for the first time in five years. On a largely party-line vote of 54-42, backer...

Update 2:00 p.m.: Fed to reduce bond buying to $45 billion per month, split as $20 billion MBS and $25 billion treasuries.

Barrick Mining reported Wednesday that its first quarter profit fell 90% compared to the year-ago period thanks to depressed precious metal prices. Those prices didn't improve any bit on Wednesday, either: the Fed's conf...

During its April meeting the Federal Open Market Committee kept pace, cutting back asset purchases by another $10 billion.

It has long been held that stocks perform badly in the early months of any Fed chief's term. But is it true?

We expect the company's losses to widen (on a year-over-year basis) owing to lower met coal pricing, though this could be partially offset by the possibility of better demand for the company's thermal coal in the United ...

Southwest?s first quarter profits also rose to $152 million, from $59 million in the year ago period, on lower fuel costs and gains from fleet modernization. We figure the solid demand environment for flights in the dome...

We expect increased price-based competition in the grocery segment and higher commodity prices to weigh on the company?s earnings growth. However, cost savings from productivity initiatives could partially offset the imp...

Twitter fell as low as $37.24 a share, the lowest since it started trading, and was down 9.8% to $38.45

We expect the company to post gains in its media networks business driven by the continued growth in ratings, especially at the Nickelodeon network. Higher ratings should have boosted the advertising revenues for Viacom.

Bargain hunters are wise to pay careful attention to insider buying, because although there are many various reasons for an insider to sell a stock, presumably the only reason they would use their hard-earned cash to mak...

Going forward, sales momentum from refreshed models and expected incremental sales from new launches could spur further growth for Daimler. Stabilizing European markets, sustained China growth, along with the anticipated...

The iShares Russell Top 200 Value ETF (IWX) is seeing unusually high volume in afternoon trading Wednesday, with over 1.2 million shares traded versus three month average volume of about 41,000.  Shares of IWX were trad...

In trading on Wednesday, the iShares MSCI Sweden ETF (EWD) is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.4% on the day.  A component of that ETF showing particular strength includes shares of Sandstorm Gold (SAND), up about 0...

In trading on Wednesday, music & electronics stores shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 2.1%.  Helping drag down the group were shares of Conns (CONN), off about 5.2% and shares of Systemax (SYX) dow...

In trading on Wednesday, railroads shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1%.  Leading the group were shares of Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), up about 2.9% and shares of Guangshen Railway Company (GSH) up...