Pfizer said on Thursday that it would pay $90 a share for Hospira, which makes infusion technologies and drugs that are injected. Including debt, the deal is valued at about…
Ultimately, Tesla Motors is a long-term bet that should reward patient investors down the road. For starters, the stock should get a significant boost later this year when Tesla is…
Pascal has been one of the most powerful female studio executives in the film business. She helped turn Sony Pictures into a major brand in Hollywood. – Most stock quote…
Last Friday, while honoring a veteran on “NBC Nightly News,” Williams recounted how his helicopter was “forced down after being hit by an RPG.” He apologized on Wednesday’s “NBC Nightly…
July 2007: In a blog post after Gen. Downing died, Williams refers to the RPG attack hitting “the chopper flying in front of ours. There was small arms fire. A…
Scores of companies have had data breaches in the past few years. And for the most part, the publicly traded companies who’ve been hacked have all bounced back. Target (TGT)…
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“When they converted me to a clearance store, I knew that was a death knell,” said one manager whose store shuttered on Sunday. “I feel the company has been mismanaged…
So by falsely inflating their income to, say, $14,000, they could qualify for the full $5,460. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real…
Though 21 days have yet to pass since the start of the tax filing season, some early filers are getting antsy because they usually receive their refunds more promptly. They…
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I dropped it in the pool. My cat knocked it in the toilet. (Why was your phone on your toilet?) I drove over it. It dropped it in the ocean…
BRUSSELS — European Union officials on Thursday nudged up growth forecasts across the 28-nation bloc amid optimism that falling oil prices, a weaker euro and intervention by the European Central…
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Further gains are possible in some sectors in the eurozone’s big four marketsGermany, France, Italy and Spainsaid CMC market analyst Michael Hewson. But QE won’t fix fundamental problems in the…
The deal is the latest in a series of takeovers in Europe’s fast-consolidating telecom sector. The parties announced late last year that they were in exclusive talks. By adding EE’s…
It seems anonymous at firstbut only if you keep your wallet address secret. If that’s connected to your name, the whole world knows every transaction you’ve ever made. That’s why…
TIGTA found that the IRS followed the federal government’s “suitability standards” for considering a job applicants’ past offenses and concluded that nothing “would prohibit the IRS from hiring these individuals.”…
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Health care clinics, which have been multiplying in many locales, are expected to continue growing, Hempstead said. People are “finding them to be more convenient and they are delivering better…
Carlotta Gall, the North Africa correspondent for the New York Times who’s previously covered wars in Afghanistan and Kosovo, echoes that sentiment. “You don’t make a mistake on that,” Gall…
But closing stores is expensive, due to the cost of severance, liquidating merchandise and paying penalties to get out of leases. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market…
SEOUL, South Korea — The South Korean government on Thursday rejected a regulatory compromise suggested by Uber and vowed a “strong crackdown” on its ride-hailing services. During a news conference…
Stocks in Athens fell by 6% in early trading, and the country’s banks were even harder hit. Piraeus Bank (BPIRF) plunged by 16% and the National Bank of Greece (NBG)…
Britain’s mobile sector is dominated by EE, Vodafone (VOD) and O2, which BT spun off in 2001 to help pay down debt. – Most stock quote data provided by BATS….
Brezinsky would prefer to see RadioShack live on in some form, but he’s prepared to keep his stores open under a different name if necessary. That might happen soon —…
Investors pushed the stock up about 10% as excitement builds about Twitter’s expansion of the video capabilities on its site, its partnerships with other tech companies and the new ability…
It’s likely to be a similar issue for Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfinger. Both have about half their business overseas now notes Bridget Weishaar, an equity analyst at Morningstar. “Foreign…
The NBC News anchor Brian Williams apologized Wednesday for mistakenly claiming he had been on a helicopter that was shot down by ground fire in Iraq in 2003. Last week, NBC Nightly…
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