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BP hikes dividend after strong fourth quarter
BP PLC has raised its quarterly dividend by 14 percent after posting double-digit gains in profit and revenue in the last three months of 2011 despite further big payments to compensate for a disastrous ...
Oil hovers near $97 as traders eye US supplies
Oil prices hovered near $97 a barrel Tuesday in Asia amid trader concern U.S. crude supplies will continue to rise because of weak demand.Benchmark crude for March delivery fell 6 cents at $96.86 a barrel ...
Glencore, Xstrata agree to $90 billion merger
Mining company Xstrata and commodities dealer Glencore agreed to a $90 billion merger Tuesday that will create the world's fourth largest natural resources company.The announcement of the terms of the ...
World stocks lower as Greek debt talks drag on
World stock markets were mostly lower Tuesday as talks dragged on to resolve a massive debt mess in Greece before it explodes into a wider financial crisis.Benchmark oil hovered below $97 per barrel while ...
South Africa minister: Mines won't be nationalized
Nationalization is not an option for South Africa's troubled mining industry, the country's mining minister told an international audience Tuesday.A nationalization debate within mining minister Susan ...
China forges Arab ties, hedging bets in the Gulf
To celebrate Chinese New Year last month, Dubai's swankiest hotel bathed its sail-shaped facade in red lighting accented with an image of a twisting golden dragon.The gesture by the $2,300-a-night Burj ...
Toyota lifts profit forecast as disaster woes fade
Toyota's quarterly profit slid 13.5 percent on production setbacks caused by last year's tsunami disaster and the flooding in Thailand, but Japan's top automaker raised its annual earnings forecast, saying ...
Congress OKs bill to prod US aviation into new era
After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation's aviation ...
Canada's Harper in China visit focused on energy
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is visiting China to discuss oil sales and other economic ties following U.S. President Barack Obama's rejection of a pipeline carrying Canadian oil across the continental ...
Corporate profits aren't what they seem
Is the great profit engine of corporate America running out of steam?While other parts of the economy struggled the past two years, large companies managed to rack up higher profits quarter after quarter. ...
Final Glance: Chemicals companies
Shares of some top chemicals companies were down at the close of trading:Dow Chemical Co. fell $.20 or .6 percent, to $33.98.DuPont Co. fell $.23 or .4 percent, to $51.78.
Sector Snap: Chinese Internet stocks slide
Shares of Chinese Internet companies tumbled Monday as one Web company's revenue guidance worried investors, building on concerns that the European economic crisis will significantly slow Chinese economic ...
Midday Glance: Chemicals companies
Shares of some top chemicals companies are down at 1 p.m.:Dow Chemical Co. fell $.31 or .9 percent, to $33.87.DuPont Co. fell $.21 or .4 percent, to $51.80.
This Year’s Super Bowl Commercials…Anticlimactic?
Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Everyone knows the best part of the Super Bowl - the commercials. One day a year Americans skip the fast-forward button on their DVRs and direct their gaze on the television, assiduously watching every second of these highly-anticipated commercials. The annual ritual of watching Super Bowl ads [...]
Facebook's IPO: What Will Change and What Won't
Once Facebook goes public, the party's over, right?
For Facebook 'Hacker Way' is way of life
Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a "hacker".For most people, that word means something malicious — shady criminals who listen in on private voicemails, or anonymous villains ...
Shocked? Not! Not many surprises in Super Bowl ads
If you're expecting to be shocked by all the Super Bowl ads, don't hold your breath: There won't be many surprises.About 20 of the roughly 36 Super Bowl advertisers put their TV commercials online before ...
Russia admits brief cut of gas supplies to Europe
Russia's state-controlled Gazprom natural gas giant acknowledged for the first time Saturday that it had briefly reduced gas supplies to Europe amid a spell of extreme cold.Gazprom deputy chief Andrey ...
