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U.S. stocks rose, after the Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped from a record high yesterday, as Home Depot rallied on earnings and investors weighed the possibility the central bank will scale back stimulus plans.

Dow component Hewlett-Packard Co. and Target Corp. are among the high-profile companies reporting quarterly results on Wednesday.

The Dow Jones industrial average and S&P 500 ended at all-time highs, while the dollar rose and gold fell.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Jefferies Group in a report released on Wednesday, StocKRatingsNetwork.com reports.

Apple's ability to shelter billions of dollars of income from tax has depended on an unusual loophole in the Irish tax code that helps the country compete with other countries for investment and jobs.

Reassuring comments from a Federal Reserve official and better earnings from two big retailers helped push the stock market higher Tuesday.

Rajat Gupta , former Goldman Sachs director and former senior partner at McKinsey & Co., exits Federal court with his lawyer Gary Naftalis after being sentenced to two years in prison on Oct.

A lawyer for a former board member at Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble Co., who was convicted on insider trading charges, has told an appeals court that his client deserves a new trial.

Sprint offered $3.40 a share, up 14 percent from a previous bid of $2.97 a share, the company said today in a statement.

Legg Mason plans to offer a new kind of fixed-income mutual fund designed to appeal to investors looking for the liquidity of money-market funds.

Sprint Nextel Corp said its Japanese suitor SoftBank Corp granted it a waiver allowing it to consider a $25.5 billion rival bid by Dish Network Corp, as pressure mounts on SoftBank to sweeten its offer for the No.

MORE than 328 million was wiped off the market value of Aberdeen-based transport giant FirstGroup as its shares plunged by nearly a third after it asked shareholders for 615m to reduce its debt pile and turn around its bus and rail operations.

The firm currently has a "buy" rating on the stock. The analysts wrote, "We continue to like the specialty retail group heading into 1Q earnings.

They currently have a $71.00 target price on the stock, down from their previous target price of $76.00. The analysts wrote, "We are lowering our rating on the shares of Bed Bath & Beyond to Hold from Buy while taking down the price target to $71 from $76. Although we believe this company has all the potential to become an omni-channel leader in ... (more)

Heather Tomkins, a Web Design and New Media graduate student at Academy of Art University, will be spending the summer working at Klout, the San Francisco tech company that measures the influence of social media users, thanks to the Kleiner Perkins Design Fellows Program.

I've never had the pleasure of meeting Marvin Blum. But if I ever do, I'd like to shake his hand.

A Goldman Sachs sign is seen over their kiosk on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, April 26, 2010.

A gauge of future economic activity rose more than analysts had expected, as did a measure of consumer confidence, adding to evidence that the economy is steadily recovering.

's stock had its "hold" rating restated by equities researchers at Jefferies Group in a report issued on Monday, AnalystRatingsNetwork reports.