President Obama's standard gripe is that the economy has performed so poorly during his term because of the financial crisis he inherited from George W. Bush. But this week it is Mr. Obama who has bequeathed to his successors a landmark in ...
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After H.J. Heinz pared its forecasts on Thursday, Wall Street analysts lost their taste for the ketchup-maker. Though sales in emerging markets are growing at a nice clip, lagging U.S. operations remain a big challenge for Heinz (ticker: ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Canadian stocks closed fractionally higher on Thursday as commodities recovered from recent losses. But anxiety over whether Greece will stay in the euro zone kept some investors on the sidelines.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Brazilian stocks rose Friday, buoyed by gains in housing issues, but the market still faced its fifth consecutive weekly decline.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — It isn’t time to celebrate relief at the gasoline pump just yet. So far, the data are encouraging. The average price for a gallon of regular gas has fallen each day since May 16 and stood at $3.666 on Friday, ...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Canadian equities wavered between small gains and losses Friday, poised to finish the week higher, with gold miners and technology stocks providing support, but financials weighing on the market.
Signs are emerging that U.K.-listed miners are reassessing billions of dollars' worth of expansion plans in response to a recent sharp fall in commodity prices and mutterings that a 13-year-long boom could be peaking.
Ever tried eating steel? It is pretty tough to swallow. But that won't stop Chinese exporters trying to force-feed it to you. China's steel industry has churned out more than two million metric tons a day so far this month. That is 749 ...
NEW YORK—There's a new top dog in the world's major currencies: the Canadian dollar. Canada's ascension to the throne of most liked outside the world's reserve currencies is evidenced by recent moves in the spot market--where the loonie, as ...
It's widely known in the metals community that both IntercontinentalExchange Inc. and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing are the final candidates in the running to buy the London Metal Exchange.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Gold futures rose Friday, but not likely enough to notch weekly gains. Gold futures for June delivery (GCM2, US) advanced $9.90, or 0.6%, to $1,567.20 an ounce on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile ...
New signs of a global slowdown are darkening the economic outlook. On Thursday, the U.S. reported that businesses were slowing their orders of computers, aircraft, machinery and other long-lasting goods. Measures of business sentiment in ...
Australia, long called the "lucky country," officially is the happiest country on earth. That's at least according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, whose economists reckon they can distill human emotion into ...
HONG KONG—Asian markets and commodities fell Wednesday after the former Greek Prime Minister said preparations for an exit from the euro zone are being considered, damping optimism ahead of a European Union summit.