Duke Energy Corporation (DUK) has launched PremierNotes that will provide opportunity to the individuals and other qualified investors to make direct investments in new debt of the company. PremierNotes will have interest rate set at least a quarter of a percentage point higher than the average rate of taxable U.S. money-market mutual funds, which will [...]

My son can be great at blaming a current issue on something outside his control.  But dig into the details, and you’ll find that the train is on the track only because he put it there.  Reading, lad?  I’ll save the particulars from public consumption.  And so it is with all the finger pointing over [...]

Equities research analysts at UBS Reiterate a “Buy” rating for shares of Calix, Inc. (CALX) in a research note released to investors today. Calix Networks, Inc. manufactures and markets telecommunication and access network management solutions. The communications access systems and software provided by the company enable communications service providers (CSPs) to connect to their residential [...]

Senate: • AZ-Sen: Rep. Jeff Flake (R) will apparently announce a haul of more than $1 million in Q1. • OH-Sen: A spokesman for Treasurer Josh Mandel says he’ll file paperwork with the FEC “very shortly,” but it’s not clear from the writeup whether this means an exploratory committee (what I’m guessing) or if it’s [...]

Effective May 1, 2011, Air Products and Chemicals Inc. (APD) will increase prices of its Tomamine, Tomadry, Tomadyne, Tomadol, Nonidet and Nonatell surfactants by $0.05 per pound driven by increase in raw material costs. On April 1, 2011, Air Products also increased the prices globally up to 5% for its range of epoxy curing agents, [...]

Hundreds of Christians were slaughtered last week outside the Salesian Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus mission in Duekou, Ivory Coast by predominantly Muslim troops loyal to president-elect Alassane Ouattara. Forces loyal to UN-backed, Alassane Ouattara made gains against the army loyal to sitting president Gbagbo, seizing swaths of western territory outside of their traditional [...]

In a sharp about-face of policy, the Obama administration is backing away from President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, America’s long-time ally in the war against terror. The administration had fully supported Saleh until news leaked out this weekend, confirmed on Monday, that the administration was calling for Saleh to step down, according to AFP. [...]

By Marc Chandler Overseas investors have stepped up their purchases of Indian equities in recent days and have reversed the earlier outflows to be net purchases here in 2011. Between last Thursday, March 31, Friday April 1 and yesterday April 4, foreign investors bought nearly $1 bln of Indian shares according to the Securities and [...]

• According to a report, Vodafone Group PLC (NASDAQ:VOD) is selling its 44% stake in French mobile phone company SFR to Vivendi in a deal worth about $11.3 billion • Shares of Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) gained 0.79% to close at $20.54 after the company agreed to sell its Capsugel unit to KKR & Co. (NYSE:KKR) for nearly $2.4 [...]

On Monday, Dow moved up to its highest point since June 5, 2008 and the markets ended with negligible gains, continuing the trend of tight volumes. Oil prices sky-rocketed to post a 30-month high and tech stocks weighed heavy on the broader markets.   The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) gained 0.2% to end at [...]