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Oil prices weighed heavily on U.S. stock markets today as investors were left to ponder not if but when oil will break the $50 barrier -- and what will happen as a result ...

Another spike in oil prices to a record high squelched a would-be-rally on Wall Street today as the markets closed out a week many investors were eager to see come to a end ...

A weak outlook for the economy and oil's continued march toward new record-high prices left U.S. stocks mixed today, with the Dow suffering a second straight day of sharp losses ...

U.S. stock markets turned in their worst performance in nearly a month today as crude oil prices rocketed toward $50 per barrel and investors fretted over the future of corporate earnings ...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry into the Puerto Rico MTA ...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry into the Puerto Rico MTA ...

Cingular Wireless, AT&T Wireless and Triton PCS today said that they have signed an agreement -- contingent on the closing of Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless -- that will give Cingular expanded wireless service in Virginia and Triton PCS added coverage in North Carolina and entry into the Puerto Rico MTA ...

The Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates as expected today, boosting the overnight lending rate by a quarter-point. Stocks reacted to the news with a modest late-day rally ...

Another day of rising oil prices, an apparently imminent rate hike by the Federal Reserve and corporate earnings warnings conspired to drive stocks lower Monday ...

Roche, Genentech and OSI Pharmaceuticals today announced positive results from a phase III study of investigational drug Tarceva (erlotinib) in locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer patients ...

Consumer prices barely grew in August, the latest sign that at least inflation is not a main concern in the U.S. economic picture ...

Activity in the Philadelphia region's manufacturing sector continues to improve, according to firms surveyed for this month's Business Outlook Survey released today by the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia ...

Mazda and NEC today announced that Mazda will start testing grid-computing technology. For the trial, NEC will incorporate the technology into Mazda's core business systems to use the distributed IT resources of many servers as one virtual server ...

Bad news -- an earnings warning from a Dow company and a tepid economic indicator -- drowned out any reason for optimism, such as Oracle's earnings, as investors sent stocks to sizeable losses Wednesday ...

Infineon Technologies AG announced today that it has reached an agreement with the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division ...

Investors continued to be bullish on technology stocks Monday, driving the Nasdaq above the 1,900 level for the first time in two months and helping to lift stocks higher across the board ...

SugarCRM, developer of Sugar Sales commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) application built on pure LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environments, has the release of Sugar Sales Professional ...

The semiconductor industry has become inflated with hundreds of vendors competing in a crowded marketplace. However, within 10 years, 40 percent of today's semiconductor vendors are likely to leave the industry, according to new research from Gartner ...

Data showing that inflation appears to be in check, at least at the wholesale level, helped lift Wall Street to a winning close of a holiday-shortened week ...

In what has been a rare occurrence this year, technology stocks outshone their counterparts as some good earnings news from the sector helped power the Nasdaq higher ...