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Japan's Nikkei average rose to six-month highs on Monday, and looked poised to test key resistance levels around 15,500 points, on hopes of continued improvement in corporate earnings.

Asian stock markets were mostly higher Monday, shrugging off jitters about stiffer Western sanctions against Russia, after China reported strong corporate profits.

The kiwi traded at 85.63 US cents at 8am from 85.51 cents on Friday in New York and 85.73 cents at 5pm in Wellington.

NEWSDAY STAFF. Oyster Bay has sold $170.5 million in bonds that officials and the bond prospectus said was to pay off short-term debt that it used for capital projects..

Sands' amazing skyline only seems to get brighter each year. Even though investors have worried about the second quarter, the company's long-term growth catalysts are still there.

The average CEO pay at India's top listed companies has risen to Rs 10 crore a year, but still remains less than one-tenth of over Rs 100 crore median remuneration paid to their peers in the US.

Among the leading US solar-related stocks, First Solar , GT Advanced Technologies and SolarCity saw the largest percentage changes in the number of shares sold short in the first two weeks of July.

As US crude oil production has surged by more than 50% since 2008, leading shale plays like the Eagle Ford and Bakken have become household names.

Market-Makers [MMs] enable volume transactions for their big-money fund clients by filling out the assembled available "other side" of each trade with their own firm capital.

Grand Power Logistics Group Inc., Keek Inc., Stans Energy Corp., Mobio Technologies Inc., Peak Positioning Technologies Inc., and other stocks on the S&P/TSX Venture Exchange.

A man who authorities say fatally shot a caseworker at a hospital complex near Philadelphia and was then shot by his psychiatrist remains listed in critical condition.

Stocks fell on Friday with shares of Visa weighing on the Dow and Amazon serving as the worst performer in the S&P 500.

Amazon was the biggest drag on the S&P 500. Its shares sank 9.6 percent to $324.01 a day after the online retailer reported an unexpectedly big loss for the second quarter.

Gold stocks and financials helped give the Toronto stock market a lift Friday amid a rebound for U.S. durable goods orders.

The New York Stock Exchange is shown, Monday, July 15, 2013 in New York. European stock markets were down Friday, July 25, 2014 while Asian markets took cheer from U.S. unemployment claims falling to an eight-year low.

These mutual funds go by a few names, and it doesn't help that some are inscrutable like "liquid alts," but they generally fall under an umbrella known as alternative mutual funds.

In this July 16, 2014 file photo, trader Benedict Willis uses his moblie phone as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

The Dow Jones industrial average lost 127 points, 0.8 percent, to 16,956. The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell eight points, or 0.4 percent, to 1,979.

Stocks are ending the week on a sour note, putting the S&P 500 in reverse on the road to 2,000.

If you took your U.S. dollars to Norway, that's how deep the exchange rate would set you back.