Credit-rating giant Moody's Investors Service published a list of companies Tuesday that it believes are most likely to default on their debt.
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The onslaught of job losses continued Thursday as employers announced a toll that could exceed 13,000.
Eastman Kodak Co. said Tuesday it is buying back up to $1 billion, or about a quarter, of its outstanding stock, by tapping a $581 million tax refund and a cash surplus the picture-taking pioneer has amassed
With the Writers Guild of America strike finally over and Jon Stewart tinkering with his opening monologue, the 80th annual Academy Awards is expected to offer plenty of high wattage glamour on Hollywood's big night.
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Stocks gained in midday trade Thursday, as investors weighed positive earnings news, lingering subprime fears and an uptick in the price of oil.
PEOPLE critic Tom Gliatto thinks America made the right decision.
The following are some of Friday's most actively traded stocks:
Technology stocks could lead the way to an opening advance for U.S. stocks Tuesday.
Credit-rating giant Moody's Investors Service published a list of companies Tuesday that it believes are most likely to default on their debt.
Slumdog, Rourke and Winslet and favored, but there is a spoiler
The onslaught of job losses continued Thursday as employers announced a toll that could exceed 13,000.
Eastman Kodak Co. said Tuesday it is buying back up to $1 billion, or about a quarter, of its outstanding stock, by tapping a $581 million tax refund and a cash surplus the picture-taking pioneer has amassed
With the Writers Guild of America strike finally over and Jon Stewart tinkering with his opening monologue, the 80th annual Academy Awards is expected to offer plenty of high wattage glamour on Hollywood's big night.
Morgan-McClure Motorsports is a great chapter in NASCAR lore. Unfortunately, that's just what is is: history.
Stocks gained in midday trade Thursday, as investors weighed positive earnings news, lingering subprime fears and an uptick in the price of oil.
PEOPLE critic Tom Gliatto thinks America made the right decision.
The following are some of Friday's most actively traded stocks:
Technology stocks could lead the way to an opening advance for U.S. stocks Tuesday.
Stocks finished Tuesday's session mixed as worries about the health of the economy took a toll on investors.
Stocks finished Tuesday's session mixed as worries about the health of the economy dampened investor sentiment.
Stocks edged lower Tuesday as a string of negative economic reports pressured sentiment.
Photography company Eastman Kodak Co. on Tuesday said its quarterly loss narrowed from a year earlier, when it took a $778 million tax-related charge, and revenue fell as traditional film sales declined 19 percent.
Eastman Kodak ranks no. 155 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $14,268 million in revenues, up 3.2% from the previous year. The Rochester, N.Y.-based company was ranked no. 153 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were -$1,362 million, down 345% from a year earlier.
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Eastman Kodak will delay shipment of its highly anticipated EasyShare One digital camera to October, a newspaper report said Tuesday.
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Call John Hussman a cautious optimist. The manager of the $1 billion Hussman Strategic Growth fund has plenty of money riding on some of America's biggest companies, including Merck, Eastman Kodak ...
Call John Hussman a cautious optimist. The manager of the $1 billion Hussman Strategic Growth fund has plenty of money riding on some of America's biggest companies, including Merck, Eastman Kodak and Home Depot.
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Strength in technology stocks spilled over into the broader market late Thursday, keeping the major indexes in positive territory on the first trading day of the second quarter.
A number of high-profile deals and a continued wave of buying extended from the previous week were among the factors giving stocks a slight boost early Monday.
Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart could be the names that move stocks when the markets open for business Monday.
U.S. stocks edged higher early Thursday as investors sorted through a mixed group of earnings, one session after a blue chip rally pushed the Dow to its highest close in nearly two years.
Eastman Kodak's announcement of a 20 percent staff reduction and up to $1.7 billion in charges will draw Wall Street's attention Thursday, as investors also considered earnings from Ford Motor and AT&T as well as the jobless claims and leading indicators reports.
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In a move that stunned investors, Eastman Kodak (EK) announced in September that it would slash its dividend by 70% and redirect the cash flow into acquisitions to beef up its digital businesses. M...
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Few CEOs have ridden the highs and lows of corporate life as quickly as Eastman Kodak's George Fisher. When he accepted the top spot at the Rochester, N.Y. imaging giant in 1993, he was heralded as...
If you bought a PC in the past 18 months, you may have noticed a couple of mysterious little slots on the back. The slots tap into a set of circuits inside your PC called the universal serial bus, ...
George Fisher, normally a cerebral, rational scientist, is mad. "We've run out of patience--we're in a kill mode," he said, sitting in his Rochester, N.Y., office on a recent rainy day. Kodak's 57-...
Not that long ago, few people were attached to the idea of the 401(k) company savings plan. Now the plans are as much a part of corporate America as casual Fridays--and even more beloved. Many grat...
Remember when AT&T announced a cut of 40,000 jobs? (It was January 1996.) With the economy in its seventh year of expansion, such mammoth cuts are getting rare, as these figures from Challenger Gra...
Investing in stocks is a highly personal activity. You hand your hard-earned cash over to a company and trust that its managers will make you wealthier. Scary stuff, when you think about it. So how...
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The evocative power of the pictures in this portfolio is a tribute to a golden age of color photography that began in the mid-1930s. The spark was the invention of Kodachrome, a new type of film th...
The world may be getting smaller as we all travel more, but there's little evidence that the folks flying us are richer for it. The nine airlines on the 500 lost an aggregate $1 billion; the Air Fr...
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IF HEMINGWAY AND Fitzgerald could update one of their more memorable bits of repartee, it might go something like this: ''Ernest, the rich are different from you and me.'' ''Yes, Scott, they have m...
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Customers like companies that support good causes. So concludes a survey on corporate social responsibility conducted by Roper Starch Worldwide on behalf of Cone Communications, a marketing firm in...
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Unless doodling brings us closer to heaven, some meetings can be a real waste of time. Since time is money, someone has finally come up with a way to show how much a meeting costs -- and, maybe, wa...
Not even the recent string of brighter economic signs -- including an increase in orders for computers and other manufactured goods -- can stay the relentless blizzard of pink slips. The 46,964 ann...
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How many Ninja Turtle action toys does it take to pay for an appendectomy? Answer: 39,000, at least if you're Dayton Hudson. Kenneth Macke, CEO of the Minneapolis retailer, told the Senate Finance ...
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While dreams of capital gains are uppermost in the minds of investors, many also rely on dividends for income, or plan to one day. Yet with stock market indexes setting new records, it's getting to...
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