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.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. financial stocks were quiet on Friday ahead of the U.S. Memorial Day holiday but shares of Genworth Financial, E-Trade Financial Corp. and CME Group the most active shares.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — E-Trade Financial Corp. shares closed lower Thursday even as the company tried to assuage investors’ fears by revealing its market-making unit lost less than $1 million due to the botched Facebook IPO last ...
RBC Capital Markets With our concerns related to corporate IT (information technology) spending, we're proactively reducing our revenue and earnings expectations for several companies in our industry coverage.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Now that a privately built capsule has completed its historic hook-up with the International Space Station, investors may want to tread lightly before boldly going where few have gone before.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Losses in shares of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. put a cap on gains in the broader financial sector Wednesday, as investors gauged the financial hit the firm will take to quell the uproar over the botched IPO of Facebook ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Growth is hard to find in Europe these days, so it came as little surprise when Banco Santander, based in recession-wracked Spain, struck a deal this year to expand its presence in economically resilient Poland.
MUMBAI (MarketWatch) — Most Asia markets rose Monday with exporters and resource firms rebounding from sharp losses, though Hong Kong and Shanghai nudged lower, with financials weak after the summit of the Group of Eight major economies ...
The FDIC's first-quarter report on the nation's banks paints a dramatically improving picture for the industry, with many metrics at their healthiest levels since before the financial crisis.
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. shares recovered on Tuesday, providing some support to sliding financials, as the firm faced shareholders at an annual meeting just days after stunning the market with a surprise $2 ...
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SAO PAULO—General Electric Co. became the latest international behemoth to throw its weight behind the business empire of Eike Batista, providing cash and credibility as the Brazilian billionaire's EBX Group moves through the expensive and ...
A fragmenting economic landscape in Europe has watered down the relevance of a region-wide index of countries' cost of insurance against default that used to provide a reliable gauge of investor sentiment.
MADRID (MarketWatch) — Turkey and Poland are not among Europe’s established economic powerhouses but investors, emboldened by improving performance there, are likely to beat a path to their doors in the coming years, some analysts say, so ...
ELLICOTT City, Md. (MarketWatch) — The biggest winners have been the most beaten-down stocks during the financial crisis. Of course, these companies also had the most to recover from.