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Stocks are headed for a fourth gain in a row after several big-name U.S. companies reported encouraging first-quarter results.

The bank earned $1.95 billion in the quarter, down 11 percent from $2.19 billion in the same period a year earlier.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Wednesday that it will announce a new service with electronic payments provider Euronet Worldwide Inc on Thursday, but gave no other details.

The full report, which was due on Tuesday, has not yet been processed and posted online by the Federal Election Commission.

Stephen Harper's former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, is relieved that the RCMP won't be laying criminal charges against him and is expected to move back into the private sector - but suspended Sen. Mike Duffy's future is much more uncertain.

After the market closed Wednesday, McLean, Va.-based Capital One reported net income of $1.14 billion, or $1.96 per share, for the three months ending March 31. That compares with net income of $1.04 billion, or $1.77 per share, in the same period of 2013.

American Express says its net income climbed 12 percent in the first quarter, helped by higher spending by its cardholders even as cold winter weather gripped much of the country.

After canceling her show in Kansas City at the last minute following her hospitalization for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics, Miley Cyrus has now scrapped her show Wednesday night at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.

Bank of America said Wednesday that it swung to a loss in the first quarter, hurt by $6 billion in legal expenses.

U.S. stock futures were moving higher after a set of positive earnings and better-than-expected Chinese GDP data boosted investor sentiment.

The bank's Texas market posted a profit of $46 million in the quarter, up from $43 million a year ago.

GOOD EVENING, I'M STEVE SPRIESTER. AND I'M ISIS ROMERO. A SON IS UNDER ARREST TONIGHT FOR BRUTALLY ASSAULTING HIS FATHER DURING AN ARGUMENT.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare to cut the 'flower ribbon' when they officially open the Visitor's Centre at the Botanical Gardens in Christchurch, New Zealand, during their three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand.

PNC Financial Services Group will post its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, April 16th.

Salvage operations for a barge that overturned and sank last week in the Mississippi River in northeast Arkansas are expected to begin.

But the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq were all in slightly negative territory by 10:30a.m. ET.

The firm currently has a $54.00 target price on the stock, up from their previous target price of $45.00.

Effective immediately, i>clicker 2 and i>clicker GO systems are available for purchase in Australia, with only i>clicker GO available in New Zealand.

As General Electric Co starts spinning off its consumer credit card business, some on Wall Street are hoping that the U.S. industrial conglomerate will eventually slim down its GE Capital finance unit even further.

Credit Suisse AG has hired Jim Spencer from Lazard Ltd as head of financial institutions investment banking for the Americas, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Monday.