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Canadian oil sands developer Connacher Oil & Gas Ltd (CLL.TO) will sell oil assets in southwest Saskatchewan to an affiliate of private oil field company Accelerated Oil Technologies for $57.44 million as part of its efforts t

Energy stocks are lower today with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration citing a Houston-area refinery owned by Petrobras (PBR) for 21 safety violations that carry penalties of up to $115,650, according to a stat

Shares of technology firms are mixed today with Scott Koller getting promoted to the top job at Wireless Ronin (RNIN), taking over as CEO after Jim Granger retired from of the maker of digital signage software. Koller currently is

Endo Pharmaceutical Holdings (ENDP) said U.S. regulators have approved its Fortesta gel as a treatment for hypogonadism or low testosterone. The company expects to launch Fortesta in the U.S. early next year.

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Shares of healthcare companies are lower ahead of the bell with Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and AstraZeneca Plc (AZN) reportedly stopping studies of experimental painkillers over concerns the new class of drugs may raise the risk

Winnebago Industries Inc (WGO) on Wednesday purchased most assets of SunnyBrook RV Inc for $5.7 million in cash.

Consumer stocks are lower today with AFC Enterprises (AFCE), owner and franchiser of Popeyes Chicken & Biscuits and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants, saying it has secured a new five-year, $100 million credit facility mad

In a statement dated Tuesday, the U.S. trade watchdog said Sony's complaint alleged that LG violated U.S. trade rules by importing and selling certain mobile phones and modems that infringed on Sony's patents.

Japan's Sony, which trades in ADRs under SNE in the U.S., has filed a patent-infringement complaint against LG Electronics Inc., seeking to block the South Korean electronics maker from shipping mobile phones to the U.S., the U.S.

The first of the 10 ships will be acquired in 2010, at a contract value of $437 million, and the rest via options through 2015. If all options are exercised, the total value of the ship construction portion of the contract will re

Lockheed Martin (LMT) is firmer after it said late Wednesday it won from the US Navy a fixed-price-incentive-fee contract to construct up to 10 Littoral Combat Ships.

Groupon is in talks to receive investments from several major institutional investors including Morgan Stanley (MS) and T. Rowe Price (TROW), and the online coupon provider is looking to launch an IPO as soon as the end of 2011, a

Piper Jaffray named Coinstar (CSTR) its top small cap pick, Netflix (NFLX) its top mid-cap pick, and Priceline.com (PCLN) its top pick large-cap pick for the Online Content space in 2011. The firm has a $74 price target for Coinst

Noble Energy's (NBL) stock jumped $2.92, or 3.44%, to $87.90 in Wednesday's mid-morning trading after announcing released positive news about the company's Leviathan gas reserve. Barrons.com notes that at this point the high expec

ArcelorMittal announced that it has extended the time for acceptance of its offer to purchase all of Baffinland Iron Mines' outstanding common shares at a price of C$1.25 in cash per Common Share and all outstanding common share p