The drugmaker said that its experimental drug Recentin failed to show it was better than Roche's Avastin as a treatment for colon cancer in a late-stage, head-to-head trial. But it wasn't worse, either. Investors focused on the former and pushed AstraZeneca's stock down.
Toyota's Webcast Disputes Claims of Electronics Failures
Toyota went on the offensive Monday, taking to task outside tests performed by a Southern Illinois University professor showing its electronic throttle-control system was susceptible to glitches that could lead to sudden and dramatic acceleration in its vehicles.
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AstraZeneca Shares Drop on Failed Drug Trial
1:41 PM 03/08/10
Five Stocks That Might Beat the Market This Year
7:30 AM 03/08/10
It sure is tough, but some stock-pickers have managed to consistently outperform the S&P; 500. One such pro is Mark Boyer, who every year culls 40 stocks with the potential to beat the benchmark index. Here are his top five picks for 2010
One Year Later, What's Next for Stocks?
6:00 AM 03/08/10
Of course, after having been in free-fall for nearly a year-and-a-half, no one knew for certain last March that the bottom was blessedly here. Yet now, the outlook for stocks is in some way even more uncertain. And a little cautious pessimism may be in order.
McDonald's Weight Watchers Meals Use Mysterious Math
1:07 PM 03/08/10
In New Zealand, McDonald's and Weight Watchers have teamed up to sell three co-branded meals. That's not as strange as it sounds -- Weight Watchers dieters measure food intake on a point scale. What's strange is how the numbers may or may not have been calculated.
'Amazon Tax': a Bad Idea From Cash-Strapped States
3:26 PM 03/08/10
With skyrocketing budget shortfalls, cash-strapped states see Amazon affiliates as a sales-tax cash cow. But the measures don't seem to work -- and the retailer is firing back.
National Enquirer Needs to Come Clean
3:06 PM 03/08/10
The National Enquirer is gunning for a Pulitzer for its John Edwards coverage. The paper has a point -- it should be considered -- but it's not being very transparent about whether it followed journalistic principles to get its sizzling story.
U.S. Brings Web, Social Networks to Closed Regimes
5:41 PM 03/08/10
The Treasury Department is relaxing rules for Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other companies, letting them provide social networking, email, and other web services to citizens in Iran, Sudan, and Cuba, in an effort to help open closed regimes.
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- Tehran Calling: U.S. Opens Web Trade to Repressed Societies
- Cisco Eyes Ultra High-Speed Broadband
- Toyota's Webcast Disputes Claims of Electronics Failures
- Look for Democrats to Give Health Care Reform "the Old College Try"
- States' 'Amazon Tax' Seems to Hurt Revenue, Not Boost It
- If the Enquirer Wants a Pulitzer, It Needs to be Transparent
- Roche, Biogen Suspend Arthritis Drug Program After Patient Deaths
- AstraZeneca Shares Drop on Failed Colon Cancer Drug Trial
- McDonald's and Weight Watchers: Numbers Don't Add Up, but Pounds Might
- The Cablevision-Disney Oscar Fight Hints of Things to Come
- Shell and PetroChina Go Down Under for a $3 Billion Deal
- AIG's Deal to Sell Alico to MetLife Could Be a Win-Win-Win
- Legal Briefing: Business Bankruptcies Decline Sharply
- Toyota Stands by Electronics, Denies They Are Source of Acceleration Problems
- Can Treasury Nudge Lenders Into More Short Sales? Don't Bank On It
- Overseas Strength Boosts McDonald's February Sales
- Apple on Track to Sell iPhones With Wi-Fi in China
- People@Work: Why Hourly Wage Earners Are Happier Than Salaried Workers
- Daily Blogwatch: Suicide and the Stock Market, the Next Berkshire Hathaway, and the Story Behind...
- The Case for an Upside Surprise in Job Growth
- Stocks in the News: AIG, Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's
- Inside Wall Street: Five Stocks That Just Might Beat the Market This Year
- Asian Markets Rise on U.S. Jobs Report
- One Year After Equities Hit Bottom, Where to Next?
- Subway's Impossible Dream: Catching Up with McDonald's in China
Newswire
- Ford launches affordable made-for-India compact
- Senate to take up unemployment insurance extension
- China passenger car sales up 55 pct in February
- World markets mixed after lackluster US finish
- Audi '09 net income down 39 pct to $1.8 billion
- China: US assets should not be 'politicized'
- Sony to start selling 3-D TVs in June
- Eurotunnel net profit slumps in 2009
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