SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Applied Materials Inc. on Tuesday reported a 26% drop in second-quarter profit, but reaffirmed the company's steadily growing solar power business.
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"We note that higher food and energy prices, higher mortgage payments and declining consumer confidence anticipated for the second half of the year are reducing our visibility into key metrics that im…
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(newser) – Stocks ended mostly down today as the price of oil resumed its steady rally. Crude has gained in seven of the eight last sessions, reports the
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks tried but mostly failed to reverse course on an earlier slide, with only the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index remaining higher, following a report that billionai…
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WALL Street closed mixed today after comments by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke that financial markets remained unsettled weighed on sentiment and financial stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial Av…
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down 3.7 percent at $45.48.Also weighing on the financial sector was news that an influential analyst at Oppenheimer cut her price targets on the stocks of the biggest U.S. investment banks.The Nasdaq…
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Monday's showing pushed the TSX about 40 points past the previous high from last July. But analysts note that the rally has been based on energy and base metals stocks, along with strong gains by indi…
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NEW YORK, May 13 (Reuters) - The Dow industrials pared losses and the S&P 500 turned up on Tuesday as investors took comments from Federal Reserve officials on inflation as signaling the econom…
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Wheat futures fell for a third day Tuesday on expectations that next year's world wheat production will rise to a record.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — A potential increase of investment from abroad in U.S. carriers helped lift the Amex Airline Index Tuesday, even with crude prices reaching new highs.