President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney may be tied in general election matchup polls, but a new survey shows Obama's popularity is growing among global investors. According to a new poll of more than 1,000 ...

SAC Capital Advisors LP and Viking Global Investors LP were among hedge funds that sold a net 6.1 million shares of Apple Inc. (AAPL) last quarter, taking advantage of the 48 percent jump in the iPhone maker’s stock. Hedge funds accounted for ...

The fascination with Facebook appears to be fading fast with the “cool” crowd at the worst possible time as the social networking giant’s nearly $13 billion IPO rolls out this week, like it or not. “For some reason that social Facebook excitement ...

A new Bloomberg Poll shows a global/domestic split between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Global investors back Obama, while domestic ones prefer the Republican challenger. Overall, Obama leads Romney 49%-38% in the quarterly Bloomberg Global Poll, a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Mack McDowell likes to spend time at the local knife and gun show "drooling over firearms," as he puts it. Retired after 30 years in the U.S. Army, he has lined his study with books on war, framed battalion patches from his tours in ...

New York voters are overwhelmingly in favor of raising the state's minimum wage while at the same time supportive of Senate Republicans' plan small business tax cuts and credits, according to a new poll from the Siena Research Institute. WEB EXTRA: Click ...

President Obama’s long, tortuous metamorphosis on same-sex marriage finally reached its evolved state right in between stinky cheese and “General Hospital.” Smoked out by his own vice president, Obama decided to come out of the closet on the issue to ...

The building of the National "Ivan Vazov" Theater in downtown Sofia. File photo The average Bulgarian favors the cinema and the theater, seldom visits museums, but the number of library visitors is on the rise, according to data from statistical surveys ...

As the shadows crept across the diamond Tuesday afternoon at Angel Stadium, Ervin Santana was ever more difficult to hit, and the A's don't fare well against him in the best of circumstances. He worked 7 2/3 scoreless innings against Oakland as ...

Microsoft Corp. scored a win over Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. on Friday as a judge ruled in favor of the software giant in a closely watched patent dispute over how mobile communication devices operate. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled ...