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NEW YORK - MasterCard's first-quarter profit rose 25 percent on a big spike in card use overseas. The Purchase, N.Y.-based payments processor said Wednesday that its net income was $682 million, or $5.36 per share, on revenue of $1.8 billion. That exceeded Wall Street's expectations of a profit of...
WASHINGTON - A private survey shows U.S. businesses sharply reduced hiring in April, a troubling sign two days before the government reports on monthly job growth. Payroll provider ADP says that businesses added 119,000 jobs last month, far lower than a revised total of 201,000 jobs in March. The...
NEW YORK (AP) — MasterCard's first-quarter profit rose 25 percent on a big spike in card use overseas. The Purchase, N.Y.-based payments processor said Wednesday that its net income was $682 million, or $5.36 per...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A private survey shows U.S. businesses sharply reduced hiring in April,...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Airlines in the Asia Pacific region posted a lower combined net profit of $4.8 billion in 2011, down 47 percent from a year ago due to higher oil prices and a weak cargo market, an industry...
There he was on CNBC, of course, the man most identified with and heralded as the ultimate oil guru -- T. Boone Pickens being interviewed by Maria Bartiromo on May 1. Being the consciousness reporter that she is, amidst Pickens' musings on natural gas and other vistas of the oil/energy patch,...
