Much less sludge was spilled than first estimated from a dam burst at a Brazilian iron ore mine last November which killed 17 people, co-owner BHP Billiton (BHP.AX)(BLT.L) said on Friday. Satellite assessments showed about 32 million cubic meters of sludge was released into the Rio Doce river, BHP said, citing information from mine operator […]

Hyundai Motor Co on Thursday said its net profit fell 23 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, its seventh quarterly drop, hit by slowing China sales and aggressive global incentives which outweighed currency gains. The South Korean carmaker, which together with affiliate Kia Motors ranks fifth in global auto sales, said net […]

Shares of the company, which said it would close the stores this year and in 2016, fell as much as 13 percent on Thursday. Dunkin’ estimated a growth of 1.1 percent in comparable sales at its U.S. Dunkin’ Donuts stores in the quarter ended September compared with a 2 percent rise a year earlier. The […]

Investors are keenly monitoring the performance of Apple’s latest invention to see whether it can open up a new source of growth for a company heavily dependent on sales of its iPhone. The figures provided to Reuters by Wristly, which surveyed more than 2,200 Apple Watch owners, sit at the high end of estimates from […]

Slowing growth in emerging markets and currency fluctuations in anticipation of a U.S. interest rate hike may push third-quarter revenue and earnings estimates lower this month. Estimates have already fallen for 9 out of 10 of the benchmark index’s sectors so far this year, according to Thomson Reuters data. This could happen fairly quickly,” said […]

Shares of Cisco, considered a bellwether for the performance of the broader network gear industry, rose nearly 4 percent in extended trading on Wednesday. The company is the market leader in selling network equipment to businesses, controlling about half of the $38 billion global market and overshadowing rivals Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) and China’s Huawei Technologies […]

One was creation of free software — called FluAid — that gave local health officials an idea how pandemic flu might affect different geographic areas. He's also been praised for co-creating a model that helped CDC officials make the case for dropping …

Within the CDC, he's been lauded for a number of projects. One was creation of free software _ called FluAid _ that gave local health officials an idea how pandemic flu might affect different geographic areas. He's also been praised for co-creating a …

Samsung Electronics’s second-quarter profit missed analysts’ estimates after misfiring on its Galaxy S6 sales strategy and losing ground in emerging markets to Chinese smartphone brands.

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, AUG. 2, 2015 AND THEREAFTER – In this Friday, June 12, 2015 photo, Martin Meltzer stands in his office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Meltzer has made predictions on pandemic flu, smallpox, …