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Housing Starts Send Shudder Through Treasuries

On-and-off worries about inflation seemed to be back on Wednesday as stronger-than-expected housing starts and industrial production levels during May sent the prices of Treasury notes sharply up and left stocks treading water. U.S. Treasuries rallied on Tuesday, reaching their highest levels since ...

Greenspan and CPI Calm Inflation Worries

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan calmed nerves frayed by inflation and rate-hike worries Tuesday by saying that inflation is "not likely to be a serious concern" in the near future. Speaking to a congressional committee holding a hearing on his nomination to a fifth term, Greenspan said huge ...

Rate Worries Dampen Stocks

After taking the long weekend to think things over, investors apparently decided that repeated warnings from the Federal Reserve about the prospect for higher interest rates is bad news for stocks. Investors sent U.S. shares lower across the board Monday. The Dow fell 75.37 to close at 10,334.73, a ...

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Microtune, Broadcom Settle for $22.5M

Broadcom announced today that it has settled all outstanding patent and antitrust litigation with Microtune. Under the settlement agreement, all outstanding claims in pending litigation between the parties will be dismissed with prejudice. The parties also entered into reciprocal releases covering a...

Fed Warnings on Rates Boost Dollar Overseas

U.S. stock markets might have been closed Friday to honor the memory of President Reagan, but currency markets were busy reacting to more warnings from Federal Reserve members that interest rate hikes are all but inevitable. Overseas currency trading Friday reflected the new warnings, with the U.S. ...

SEC Investigating Halliburton

Halliburton of Texas said Friday the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a formal investigation into a venture in Nigeria. Halliburton said the SEC is investigating payments made in connection with TSKJ's construction of a liquefied natural gas facility in Nigeria.

Stocks Shrug Off Oil Price Increases

Oil prices defied numerous predictions by rising slightly Thursday, as disruptions in Iraq and fears that other Middle East countries would be hit by terrorists countered OPEC's decision to boost production. Meanwhile, an OPEC minister said other unpredictable forces, such as a workers' strike in Ni...

National Semiconductor Reports 34 Percent Growth

National Semiconductor today reported a GAAP profit of US$126.4 million, or 32 cents per share, on revenues of $571.2 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004, which ended May 30th, 2004. National Semiconductor's fourth-quarter sales were 34 percent higher than the fourth quarter of fiscal 2003...

Manticore Technology Intros E-Commerce Analytics App

Manticore Technology, an application service provider for online marketing optimization software, recently announced the launch of Virtual Commerce Master 4.0, an integrated e-mail and e-commerce analytics technology designed to provide managers with insight into the effectiveness of their online bu...

Microsoft on Schedule with Monthly Patch

Microsoft probably does not mind that its monthly round of security patches for June are causing much less of a ruckus than previous months when the company was caught in the middle of a worm war that targeted its Windows systems and forced the company to play catch-up with vulnerabilities that were...

Treasuries, Markets Drop Amid Interest Rate Worries

Concerns that the Federal Reserve will move aggressively to quash inflation as the economy expands more rapidly led to a sharp drop in the prices of U.S. Treasury notes Wednesday and may have helped stock markets stay in the red. Two-year and ten-year Treasury bonds both traded lower as investors be...

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