Financial Market News

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq all fell slightly in afternoon trading. Investors are probably focused more on the deluge of economic reports coming later this week: a read on gross domestic product for the second quarter, a meeting from the Federal Reserve's policy committee and the July jobs report.

Investors are so hungry for yield in the bond market that they're giving rich college grads money to help pay off their student loans.

The US stock market sank in early trading Monday, ahead of a full week of economic reports and earnings.

Discount store chain Dollar Tree Inc. said it would buy rival Family Dollar Stores Inc. for about $8.5 billion, creating North America's biggest discount retailer.

The stock market is opening mixed at the start of a busy week as a batch of merger announcements lift shares in Family Dollar and other companies.

Shares of the fast food chain have dropped 3.3% in the week since a longtime McDonald's meat supplier was accused of processing expired meat.

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.