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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index rose slightly on Tuesday as investors took ratings agency Moody's threat to downgrade Britain in their stride, with cheap valuations and central bank support holding up assets like the banks. UK bank stocks pared early losses in tandem with the broader UK benchmark index, which …

(Reuters) - For years, Craig McCann played a prominent role as a top expert witness, his testimony helping to win millions of dollars for investors who sued financial companies. As those victories piled up, brokerages went to war on his credentials, and more recently, his credibility. The effort provides a window into how …

LONDON (Reuters) - The euro rose to a session high and shares reversed early losses after key German data bolstered hopes that Europe's largest economy was recovering and a strong Italian bond sale added to signs that financing pressures were being contained. Those factors revived sentiment after a raft of euro zone credit …

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to hiring top commodity traders, what goes around comes around. Wall Street, after years of poaching the best and brightest from specialized commodity firms, is losing the war to keep the essential traders who know how to arbitrage copper or store crude . After financial reforms sounded …

Apple's stock topped $500 for the first time on Wall Street even as a probe started looking into work conditions at a Chinese factory that cranks out the California company's coveted gadgets.

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading:

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A look at the 10 biggest percentage gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading:

A look at the 10 biggest volume gainers on Nasdaq at the close of trading:

A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on Nasdaq at the close of trading:

A look at the 10 biggest percentage decliners on New York Stock Exchange at the close of trading:

A look at Nasdaq 10 most-active stocks at the close of trading:

Comcast Corp., the nation's biggest provider of pay-TV and the majority owner of NBC Universal, is expected to extend its string of strong results when it reports its fourth-quarter earnings before the market opens Wednesday

STAYING IN PLACE: Deposits into U.S. stock mutual funds roughly equaled withdrawals in January, industry consultant Strategic Insight said on Monday. It snapped an eight-month streak of investors pulling their money out each month. The string ended as the stock market had its best January in 15 years.

Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services and Fitch Ratings downgraded their ratings on Spanish financial institutions Monday, after both agencies cut their ratings on that nation's government debt.

MADRID (Reuters) - Ratings agencies Fitch lowered its ratings on four big Spanish banks while Standard & Poor's cut its rating for the industry as a whole on Monday following recent sovereign downgrades and on concerns of funding difficulties and a weak economy. S&P's revised its Banking Industry Country Assessment (BICRA) …

The stock market may have rallied Monday after Greece took another step toward a badly needed international bailout, but investors weren't ready to leave the haven of bonds just yet.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is cutting its ratings on 15 financial institutions in Spain after its downgrade of that nation's sovereign debt.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A long, standing ovation greeted Italy's Mario Monti when he entered the packed Card Room on the seventh floor of the New York Stock Exchange last week. But that does not mean all of the 200 people in the audience were ready to send their money to the Mediterranean peninsula. In less than three months, …

In a story published Feb. 10 and Feb. 12 on the case for dividend-paying stocks, The Associated Press described Ryder System Inc. as a company that "rents moving trucks." It rents trucks to businesses but sold its consumer truck rental business in 1996.