Australian court rules Samsung can sell Galaxy

Samsung Electronics Co. is free to sell its Galaxy tablet computers in Australia after the country’s highest court Friday dismissed rival Apple’s appeal in its […]

Stocks falter after S&P’s Europe downgrade threat

Stocks wavered between small gains and losses in midday trading Tuesday after Standard & Poor’s expanded its downgrade threat against Europe to include the region’s […]

Stocks open higher on Merkel talk, jobs data

Stocks are opening higher after a report showed improvement in the U.S. job market and Germany’s chancellor talked tough about fiscal discipline in the European […]

Pressure builds as eurozone ponders debt solutions

The eurozone’s 17 finance ministers converged on EU headquarters Tuesday in a desperate bid to save their currency _ and to protect Europe, the United […]

Covidien to buy Barrx Medical

Dublin-based Covidien PLC, a drug and medical device maker with operations in Hazelwood, said Monday it will buy privately held Barrx Medical Inc. for about $325 […]

Global stocks slump as China housing cools

Global financial markets slumped Friday as investors signaled they held little optimism of any breakthrough in Europe’s debt crisis and a report showed new house […]

World stocks lower on European crisis fears

World stocks continued to slide Thursday, as investors worried that Europe’s debt crisis was intensifying and spreading to larger countries in the 17-nation euro union.
The […]

Japan’s economy rises out of earthquake slump

Japan’s economy surged 6 percent in the latest quarter in a bounce back from the earthquake and tsunami disaster that is unlikely to be sustained […]

Disney 4Q beats Street on pay TV growth

Disney’s fourth-quarter net income rose 30 percent, thanks to higher spending by theme park visitors and growth at pay TV operations ESPN and Disney Channel.
Net […]

`Crisis of trust’ creates struggle over European bailouts

It’s the “morning after” for the markets.
Gone is the euphoria over a European debt bailout plan that sent stocks soaring two weeks ago. Now investors […]