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The latest policy statement Wednesday indicated that the target of the Fed funds rate remains the same, at 0.25 to 0.50%, as expected.

Worries also included over-regulation and cyber security, according to the poll conducted in the final quarter of 2015 and published at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. The figure is down from last year’s 37 percent.

In dollar-denominated terms, China’s exports fell for the sixth consecutive month, by 1.4 percent from the same month in December, but the pace of fall decelerated from November’s 6.8 percent decline.

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, January 26th. Quarterly sales declined 2.4% from the prior year, but it was up 4.4% on operational basis.

The major averages extended losses as the close approached, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite more than 1.5 percent lower and the Dow Jones industrial average off more than 200 points. Dow Jones Industrial Average contracts increased 56 points, or 0.4 percent, to 15,867.

“The quarter also marked the end of an extraordinary year during which we completed the spin-off of PayPal”, said eBay president and CEO Devin Wenig, in prepared remarks.

However, there has been one confirmed case of the virus in Los Angeles County – in an adolescent girl who traveled to El Salvador in late November.

China’s trade surplus could have been slightly larger in December if Chinese imports from Hong Kong were not so strong, which may be a sign of capital outflows disguised via over-invoicing of imports, says the report. While the factors that have driven prices almost 18 per...

USA stocks opened lower on Monday, relinquishing some of last week’s gains as a slump in oil prices weighed on energy shares.

“Fundamentally these factors should dim the prospects of future rate hikes, but with ongoing discussions suggesting that the Fed made a mistake by raising US rates in the first place, it seems likely that the minutes may adopt a hawkish bias similar to December in an...

Investors are now focused on the Fed’s March meeting, where the markets are pricing in a 29% chance of a rate liftoff, compared to 36% before the January statement was released. Though the central bank commented on the volatility seen throughout the markets in recent weeks,...

We’ll probably never know for certain, but it seems likely that Barclays delayed support for Apple Pay so that it could push customers towards bPay, its own contactless payments solution.

Samsung Electronics reported Thursday (Jan 28) a 40 per cent on-year drop in fourth-quarter net profit as its once mighty mobile division struggled with slowing demand for smartphones and weaker chip prices impacted its semiconductor unit.

On a different note, The Company has disclosed insider buying and selling activities to the Securities Exchange, The officer (Senior Vice President), of Enlink Midstream, Llc, Golemon Stan had unloaded 33,431 shares at $32.35 per share in a transaction on June 8, 2015.

At least one advocate hailed the changes as more evidence of a new consultative, environmentally friendly approach to resource development, but complained that Energy East would be allowed to proceed under the new, transitional process.