Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM) 40% HIGHER; and international energy company BP today announced that their jointly-owned, commercial cellulosic ethanol project, located in Highlands County, Florida, has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy to enter the due diligence phase of its Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program. Under this program, t...

Signs of economy ‘green shoots’ are thin on the ground, leaving riskier assets such as equities and commodities struggling to make gains ...

US stocks were poised to finish the week on a muted note following their best session since the beginning of the month on Thursday ...

FTSE 100 drifts lower and registers its first back-to-back weekly decline since reaching a six-year low in early March. ...

Asian share markets rose, as higher oil and metals prices boosted resource stocks, while the dollar fell as investors, growing slightly more confident, gingerly shifted some funds back into riskier assets ...

Both Traders Magazine and the Wall Street Journal’s MarketBeat blog report this afternoon that Goldman Sachs Electronic Trading will begin reporting volume executed on its dark pool based on single-counted matched executions. So there is some movement concerning one of the SEC’s expressed concerns, namely the lack of uniform reporting ...

After I’ve been nagging you for a week, today it’s finally here: the annual reconstitution of the Russell indices, when hundreds of NYSE- and NYSE Amex-listed issues go in and out of the indices. If you’ve been in a cave the last few days, here is our post with links to the relevant procedures and policies. We’re not antici...

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While the global recession has sent prices plummeting on airfares, hotels and cruises, it is having the opposite effect on rental cars. ...

Once promoted as a safe way for unsophisticated investors to glide to a safe landing in retirement, target-date mutual funds are being criticized for heavy losses. ...