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Wall Street bonuses and staff levels are expected to rise again in 2013, according to a closely watched report released on Friday by a compensation consultancy Johnson Associates.
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May 19- The price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States rose sharply in the last two weeks amid outages at Midwest and West Coast refineries, according to a widely followed survey released on Sunday.
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CHICAGO, May 19- Financial trading in world markets has grown so lightning-fast that effective regulation is growing tougher by the second, increasing the threat of crashes sparked by hoaxes, electronic glitches or yet-unknown causes.
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May 19- The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove fleeting.
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MEXICO CITY/ RIO DE JANEIRO, May 19- Foreign investors flocked back to Brazil in early 2013, prompting the strongest stock market inflows in more than two years, but massive bets on share price falls suggest no change in sentiment towards Latin America's largest economy.
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Several book shops on Hong Kong's teeming shopping streets specialize in selling books and magazines banned by China, mostly for their damning accounts of party leaders, past and present. The New York Times reports.
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NEW YORK, May 18- Europe's top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.
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NEW YORK, May 17- Pension and endowment managers on Friday called on U.S. regulators to review the rules for shareholder voting after a firm collecting ballots for JPMorgan Chase& Co cut off the bank's opponents from polling information.
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NEW YORK, May 17- With the broad S&P 500 Index gliding once again into uncharted territory and posting four straight weeks of gains, the talk of Wall Street's rally inevitably hitting a ceiling is starting to get old.
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*Money managers pull $1.4 bln from COMEX gold in May 14 week. Money managers, including hedge funds, pulled $1.4 billion from the U.S. gold futures market for the week ended May 14 by trimming their net long positions in the metal, according to Reuters calculations of data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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*Money managers pull $1.4 bln from COMEX gold in May 14 week. Money managers, including hedge funds, pulled $1.4 billion from the U.S. gold futures market for the week ended May 14 by trimming their net long positions in the metal, according to Reuters calculations of data released by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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General Electric Co. rose$. 19 or. 8 percent, to $23.46. Snap-On rose$. 83 or. 9 percent, to $91.67. Whirlpool Corp. rose $2.61 or 2.0 percent, to $130.71.
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NEW YORK-- Shares of some top chemicals companies were up at the close of trading:. Dow Chemical Co. rose$. 72 or 2.1 percent, to $35.82. DuPont Co. rose$. 40 or. 7 percent, to $55.89.
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BP PLC rose$. 21 or. 5 percent, to $42.96. ConocoPhillips rose$. 88 or 1.4 percent, to $63.31. Exxon Mobil Corp. rose $1.06 or 1.2 percent, to $91.76.
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Aruba Networks: Approximately 47,555,700 shares changed hands, a 1,582.9 percent increase over its 65- day average volume. The shares fell $4.51 or 25.6 percent to $13.10. Carrollton Bancorp: Approximately 7,500 shares changed hands, a 1,371.0 percent increase over its 65- day average volume.
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ConAgra Foods Inc. rose$. 14 or. 4 percent, to $35.92. General Mills Inc. fell$. 11 or. 2 percent, to $50.36. Hormel Foods Corp. rose$. 07 or. 2 percent, to $42.70.
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American Express Co. rose $1.09 or 1.5 percent, to $73.32. Capital One Financial Corp. rose $1.68 or 2.8 percent, to $60.83. Discover Financial Services rose $1.22 or 2.6 percent, to $47.70.
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Allergan rose$. 99 or 1.0 percent, to $101.41. Baxter International Inc. rose $1.09 or 1.5 percent, to $72.94. Boston Scientific Corp. rose$. 06 or. 7 percent, to $9.10.
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Alco Stores Inc.: Approximately 400 shares changed hands, a 97.3 decrease from its 65- day average volume. The shares rose$. 05 or. 5 percent to $9.29. American River Bankshares: Approximately 100 shares changed hands, a 99.0 decrease from its 65- day average volume.
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Becton, Dickinson& Co. rose $1.28 or 1.3 percent, to $101.78. Covidien rose$. 10 or. 2 percent, to $65.77. PerkinElmer rose$. 21 or. 7 percent, to $32.19.
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NEW YORK-- Shares of some top drug benefits companies were up at the close of trading:. CVSCaremark rose$. 07 or. 1 percent, to $59.44. Express Scripts Holding Co. rose $1.17 or 1.9 percent, to $61.87.