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FedEx reported better-than-expected second quarter earnings on Wednesday, sending shares up 5% in after-hours trading.

Federal Reserve officials say they are nearly ready to raise rates after years of easy money, but they won't know until they try if the tools they have devised will work or create new problems.

Barclays said it has agreed to sell its risk analytics and index solutions business to Bloomberg for $782 million, in the British bank's latest move to focus on its core operations.

Shares of the company jumped almost 2 percent after hours.

Viscerally, Amazon entices with prospects of huge earnings per share coming. Nobody can tell you when and how much, but I can recite almost exactly to the penny what Coca-Cola and AT&T will earn next year. So can everyon...

The shipping giant posted $2.58 per share on $12.5 billion in revenue.

The Fed's move to raise its interest-rate target is only the first step. Now begins the complex and untested task of implementing policy with new tools in a very different market environment.

Stocks extended tentative gains Wednesday after the Federal Reserve bumped up key short-term interest rates for the first time since 2006, a welcome vote of confidence in the U.S. economy. The Fed also emphasized its wil...

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Gold prices were trading higher in afternoon dealings Wednesday and holding on to early gains in the aftermath of the first interest rate increase from the U.S. Federal Reserve since 2006.

In afternoon trading on Wednesday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 1.7%. Within that group, NextEra Energy Inc (NYSE: NEE) and CenterPoint Energy, Inc (NYSE: CNP) are two large stocks leading t...

The worst performing sector as of midday Wednesday is the Energy sector, showing a 0.6% loss. Within the sector, Pioneer Natural Resources Co (NYSE: PXD) and Marathon Oil Corp. (NYSE: MRO) are two of the day's laggards, ...

The Fed has held interest rates near zero for seven years.

The Telegraph's Senior City Editor Ben Wright explains what the US interest rates rise could mean for markets

Two years from now, at the end of 2017, the Fed Funds rate will sit at 3.25 percent. Relative to the core inflation rate of 2%, this will be just a hair below normal. For most of the coming two years, then, short-term ra...

For the first time since 2006, the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates. Here's what the rate hike means for your wallet.

The Federal Open Market Committee unanimously voted to set the new target range for the federal funds rate at 0.25% to 0.5%, up from zero to 0.25%

The company's tryst with restaurant reservation continued in 2015 with a host of acquisitions. The company's tours and entertainment platform, Viator, witnessed huge growth. However, Instant Booking was the show stealer....

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (or the TPP) is a revolutionary, new agreement currently being negotiated by twelve countries (Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, U.S., Vietnam, Chile, Brunei, Singapore, and ...

Disney's studio business has seen another spectacular year and it has managed to grow the market share in the U.S. for 2015. The studio benefited from the success of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Inside Out and Ant-Man, among...

Taking a step further in its quest to develop an efficient ecosystem for the Internet of things (Iot), Cisco partnered with Philips earlier this month to sell "smart" Internet-connected lights. While the deal in itself i...

While the company was facing a decline in comparable store sales for five consecutive quarters since Q2, 2014, its Q3 2015 results were promising, when the company finally reported positive comparable store sales on the ...