business - "market"

HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage lender, yesterday upped the ante on other banks to tap the stock market by confirming plans to ask shareholders for £4 billion to shore u

CEOs still make the big bucks when their companies founder in the stock market.

The U.S. Federal Reserve did as the market expected and cut its key interest rate by a modest quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday.

Despite a quarter-point clip, trading fades at end. Brazil ETF, though, pops.

IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet conglomerate led by Barry Diller, said Wednesday its first-quarter profit slipped 13 percent marketing and other expenses, but adjusted results met expectations. Net income after preferred dividends for the period ended March...

New measures will improve consumer choice and protect suppliers, the Competition Commission says.

Today, the Federal Open market Committee, or FOMC, elected to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 2 percent. According to the committee: 'Recent information indicates that economic activity remains weak....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks extended gains on Wednesday after a report showing business activity in the Midwest in April was slightly stronger than expected, helping to ease worries about the economy.

To trade in today's market, investors have to anticipate the Fed's next move. Not easy.

General Motors Corp. struggled to a $3.3 billion first-quarter loss, due in part to a weak U.S. market, a strike at a major parts supplier and plummeting sales of sport utility vehicles and pickups. The nation's biggest automaker also cut its industrywide...