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This year has not been good for Chinese stock markets at all, as trading was halted on January 4 and 7, after there was a sharp fall in the market.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) stock rose 4.22% after hours yesterday, as it posted earnings beats in its Q2 results.

KABC in Los Angeles is reporting that Bac Duong, one of the three inmates who escaped from the Orange County Jail last Friday is in police custody.

Investors sold tech stocks, already under pressure following a shaky outlook from Apple, as well as consumer stocks like travel booking sites and cruise lines.

More than 1,000 longshoremen suddenly walked off their jobs Friday morning, bringing all ports in NY and New Jersey to a halt, according to Port Authority officials. “Due to the current work stoppage in the port, no new trucks will be allowed to queue on port...

Engadget reports the GATEway project plans to launch driverless vehicles onto the streets around the Royal Observatory in Greenwich (you know, the site of the big battle in Thor: The Dark World?), which will make use of repurposed Ultra Pods.

The CSI300 index fell 2.2 percent, to 2,875.10 points at the end of the morning session, while the Shanghai Composite Index (.SSEC) lost 2.8 percent, to 2,672.45 points.

Revenue came in at $29.2 billion, beating analyst expectations of $28.7 billion. Chevron intends to continue dividend payments “whatever the ensuing price is” for crude, Chief Financial Officer Patricia Yarrington said during a July 31 conference call with analysts...

“That’s what we’re doing”.

World shares jumped and the yen slumped on Friday after the Bank of Japan took one of its main interest rates into negative territory, its boldest step yet to re-inflate the economy.

The 26-year-old from Sparkbrook went to Syria in 2014 after telling her family she was going to Turkey on holiday.

In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, photo, an American Airlines flight taxis at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Vetr raised American Airlines Group from a “buy” rating to a “strong-buy” rating and set a $46.39 price objective on the stock in a...

The base fare for the company’s UberX service has dropped from $3 to $2.55, and the per minute rate has dropped from $0.40 to $0.35, while the mile rate has dropped from $2.15 to $1.75.

After delighting investors with a surprise profit in the middle of 2015, chief executive officer Jeff Bezos has chose to boost spending again, betting that speedier shipping, intelligent home gadgets and Web technology and services will deliver robust sales growth down the road....

He said that the topic of discussion at the planned OPEC meeting in February with representatives of other oil-producing countries could be the question of oil production reducing for each producer country at the level of five percent, but a general agreement is needed for it.