Peter Dunn renounced his U.S. citizenship last year so he no longer would have to deal with the Internal Revenue Service, Al Lewis reports.

U.S. stock index futures shake off European worries to post modest gains as investors await Facebook’s much-publicized initial public offering.

U.S. stock index futures shake off European worries to post modest gains as investors await Facebook’s much-publicized initial public offering.

Europe stocks traded choppy with losses for miners and drinks makers, while banks rebounded from earlier losses related to a downgrade of Spanish banks by Moody’s Investors Service late the prior day, amid talk of a ban on short selling of those institutions.

Rubber Futures + Rubber futures in Tokyo rallied as much as 2.3% as crude oil advanced. The July-delivery contract reached 301.4 yen per kilogram before trading at 301.1 yen at 9:03 a.m. local time on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange.

RSG + According to Buffett's most recent filings with the SEC, he just added millions of shares to his holdings in waste behemoth Republic Services Group, a co. that Bill Gates is now the largest shareholder of. Is RSG the new Microsoft?

Heard on the Street +/- Discusses while Activision Blizzard ATVI gets about 30% of revenue and a higher portion of profit from recurring subscription fees on online multiplayer games, Electronic Arts ERTS is more reliant on traditional packaged games, a market ...

BP, RDS - BP Plc and Royal Dutch Shell Plc may falter in their campaigns to save billions in oil and gas project costs as a resurgence in drilling and demand for engineers threaten to revive inflation in the industry. Crude prices doubled in the p...

Education Layoffs - Many teachers and educators across the U.S. are at risk of losing their jobs in the next few months, the nation's education secretary told a meeting of the National Governors Association on Sunday. "I am very, very concerned about l...