  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock index futures bounced back on Wednesday after five days of losses on the S&P 500 that brought the benchmark index down more than 4 percent. | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc surprised Wall Street with a first-quarter profit after a loss in the fourth quarter of 2011 as global markets improved, especially in the aerospace and automobile sectors. | | | | | | | (Reuters) - Shares of Travelzoo Inc jumped 30 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday after Reuters reported that the publisher of travel newsletters and websites was planning to sell itself. | | | |  | | | | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Carlyle Group LP is eyeing a market valuation of $7.5 billion to $8 billion in an initial public offering, as the U.S. private equity firm prepares to kick off a marketing blitz to investors, perhaps as soon as next week, said a source with knowledge of the situation. | | | |  | | | | | HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile phone maker Nokia warned its phone business would post losses in the first and the second quarter as tough competition hurts it at a time of product revamp, sending its shares sharply lower. | | | |  | | | | | MACAU (Reuters) - Billionaire Sheldon Adelson said on Wednesday he plans to spend $35 billion on a mini-Las Vegas strip in Spain where he is courting the country's two top urban areas, Barcelona and Madrid, with plans for a casino complex. | | | |  | | | | | LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's top share index rose around midday on Friday with banks leading the gainers after being boosted by a positive broker comment. | | | |  | | | | | PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - As weather disasters strike with more frequency, homeowners first get hit with the destruction or total loss of property. Many are then hit with the unexpected loss of homeowners insurance policies as insurance companies re-evaluate their financial liabilities. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. import prices rose in March by the most in nearly a year on sharply higher petroleum costs, but prices outside food and energy climbed more modestly. | | |  | | | | | (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge ruled on Tuesday in favor of Swiss bank UBS AG in a lawsuit brought by Igor Olenicoff, a billionaire former client who ran afoul of the tax-collecting Internal Revenue Service and tried to blame the bank. | | | |  |  | | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today | | |  | |  | | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today | | | | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | |
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