first-quarter profit beat market estimates as its branded specialty bedding products business bucked sluggish U.S. retail trends for home furnishings, boosting its shares 10 percent.”>
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The market extended its decline after minutes from the latest Fed policy meeting showed some of the central bankers saw the possibility of a “prolonged and severe economic downturn.”
Apr
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Big leveraged buyouts won’t return for at least a year because the complex structured products and investors that supported such deals have disappeared, said Thomas H. L…
Apr
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The City by the Bay braced Tuesday for the local appearance of the Olympic torch, a symbol of the Beijing games that’s been met with violent protests in other cities.
Apr
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The three indices - S&P Pan Africa, S&P Africa Frontier and S&P Africa 40 - are designed to provide investors with tools to gauge the performance of Africa’s equity markets.
Apr
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Stocks in New York lost their strength late in the session Monday and finished little changed as investors grew jittery ahead of the kickoff of earnings season, even as word surfaced that another trou…
Apr
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks on Tuesday declined after quarterly earnings disenchanted investors and struggling thrift Washington Mutual Inc. cut its dividend and drew $7 billion in capital. …
Apr
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Further low-cost carrier bankruptcies could help the remaining carriers, though for now the benefit appears marginal, said J.P. Morgan analyst Jamie Baker in a Tuesday note. Last week’s closures repre…
Apr
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BOSTON (MarketWatch) — AstraZeneca led drug stocks lower on Tuesday, with shares of the U.K. drugmaker sliding after analysts at Goldman Sachs downgraded the stock to neutral from buy.
Apr
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That came even as retailers saw a modest improvement in weekly sales results but continue to face a rough overall environment on a year-over-year basis. For the week ending April 5, weekly chain store…