Top Financial News Sat, 17 Aug 2002, 3:33pm EDT
Four-Week U.S. Stock Rally May Fade Until Investors See Earnings Rebound The four-week rally in U.S. stocks may fade as investors temper their expectations for a rebound in corporate profits. More...
Dollar May Fall Against Euro on Concern Widening Deficit to Slow Growth The dollar may slide for a third week in four against the euro on concerns a widening U.S. budget deficit and near-record trade deficit may hamper economic growth. More...
European Stocks May Drop on Concern Sputtering Economy Will Hurt Profits European stocks may slide in coming days on concern that economic growth will stall in the second half of the year, hurting corporate profits. More...
British Pound, U.K. Bonds May Gain as Investors See U.S. Economy Faltering The British pound may gain against the dollar in coming days and U.K. bonds may reverse this week's drop on speculation a U.S. economic recovery is faltering. More...
Japan Stocks, Taiwan Computer Makers May Decline on Slowing U.S. Growth The end of the Japanese summer holiday next week may boost stock trading from a 7 1/2-month low. It probably won't help stock prices. More...
Oracle, IBM, Microsoft May Lose Business to Free Database Software MySQL Oracle Corp., which supplies Yahoo! Inc. with database software, may lose some of that business to a little-known competing product -- the free MySQL database. More...