NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks rose Friday despite losses in the broad equities market, as Chesapeake Energy maintained its upward momentum and company insiders from the oil and gas business scooped up downbeaten shares in their own ...
The Dow industrials declined as investors weighed better-than-expected U.S. consumer confidence and a report of regional weakness in Spain. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index edged lower, on pace to cap its biggest weekly gain in more ...
A consortium of countries chose South Africa and Australia to share a groundbreaking €1.5 billion ($1.87 billion) radio telescope that will be the biggest and most sensitive instrument of its kind.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
Coal miner Ambre Energy's plan to list on the Australian Securities Exchange will be delayed beyond June and possibly for longer if equity markets fail to rebound from a recent slump.
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.
Japan's energy crisis is creating opportunity for U.S companies like Sempra Energy. San Diego-based Sempra was facing a $5 billion or more tab to build a Louisiana plant to export natural gas. Then last month, two Japanese companies joined ...
— China says U.S. subsidies, other support break international trade laws — Charges likely to worsen already heightened trade tensions BEIJING (MarketWatch) — China’s Ministry of Commerce said Thursday that a months-long investigation had ...
Recently formed investment firm Inerjys hired Jigar Shah and Russell Pullan, two well-known investors and entrepreneurs in the clean technology sector, to join the firm and move to Montreal, VentureWire has learned.
The electronic markets keep getting their wires crossed—and investors are tired of getting shocked. Two years ago, in the "flash crash" of May 6, 2010, U.S. stocks lost $1 trillion in roughly 20 minutes. Two months ago, BATS Global Markets, ...
LONDON—Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Thursday extended its offer for Cove Energy PLC, buying time to consider its options after its bid for the Mozambique-focused explorer was trumped by Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production PCL.
Former Texas solicitor general Ted Cruz has notched endorsements from a 'Who's Who' list of tea party leaders, including Sarah Palin and Jim DeMint, in his bid to replace retiring GOP Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Outside conservative groups ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks reversed course from deep losses and ended in positive territory, with help from Alpha Natural Resources and First Solar Inc. on Wednesday.
TOKYO—Japan's core consumer-price index rose for the third straight month in April on the back of higher energy prices, presenting a cautiously hopeful sign in the country's battle to emerge from years of debilitating deflation.
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.