Goldcorp Inc.'s second-quarter profit nearly doubles to $190.4 million, or 49 cents per share. This compares to $98 million, or 28 cents per share, in the same period the year before.

Reuters - Japan's economy expanded 0.2 percent in the three months to June compared with the preceding quarter, an annualised growth rate of 0.8 percent, less than expected as investment in housing and public works fell sharply.

Reuters - Department store operator Kohl's Corp. on Thursday posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit and raised its earnings outlook on strong sales of new, exclusive merchandise and inventory cost controls, sending its shares higher.

Airlines are canceling flights and instituting increased security precautions after a foiled terror plot attempted to destroy as many as 10 airplanes in flight. The cancellations and delays are costing airlines untold millions; especially carriers that operate at London's Heathrow Airport....

Investor's Business Daily - Don't confuse exchange traded funds with mutual funds. ETFs are passive instruments; they sit there fully paid into whatever sector they have defined: silver, China or transportation stocks, for instance.

Kohl's Corp. reports its net income climbed 24 percent in the second-quarter due to strong sales. Quarterly income for the discount department store chain was $232.4 million, or 69 cents per share. This compares to $187.2 million, or 54 cents per share, during the same period a year prior....

Reuters - Hyundai Motor Co. Ltd. (005380.KS) has room to grow its share of the U.S. auto market, with independent research showing almost a quarter of new car buyers considering the South Korean brand, an executive said on Thursday.

AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose by $1.36 billion in the latest week to $912.09 billion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

Reuters - News of a suspected bomb plot dominated news headlines and caused gridlock at airports, but it didn't send economists back to the drawing board to recalculate forecasts for U.S. economic growth.

Investors were jubilant on Wall Street as news broke that authorities have foiled a plot to down as many as 10 airliners in flight between the U.S. and the U.K. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 48.19 points to 11,124. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 11.46 points to close at 2,071.74....

Reuters - Stocks of companies that may benefit from demand for new security measures jumped on Thursday after news of a foiled plot to blow up commercial airliners.

Reuters - Department store operator Kohl's Corp. on Thursday said its quarterly profit rose 24 percent, helped by strong sales at stores open at least a year and new store openings.

Amid the thwarted terrorist plot in London, investors welcomed falling oil prices and stocks held onto modest gains late Thursday afternoon. The tech-fueled Nasdaq composite rose about 0.4 percent with less than half an hour left in the session. Both, the Dow Jones industrial average and the...

Reuters - Oil major BP Plc said on Thursday it will delay to next week its decision on whether to completely shut down the western portion of its 400,000 barrels per day Prudhoe Bay oil field.

AFP - Banking giant Citigroup has been fined 1.1 million dollars after dozens of its brokers gained waivers on mutual fund sales charges by falsely claiming their customers were disabled, the NASD securities regulator said.

Reuters - Security fears may dampen demand for air travel in the short term, industry watchers said on Thursday, after British police foiled a plan to blow up transatlantic jetliners, but they won't throw U.S. airlines off their long recovery from the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Reuters - Oil fell $2 to below $75 a barrel on Thursday after Britain said it had thwarted a plot to blow up aircraft in transatlantic flight and investors recalled the slump in fuel demand that followed 9/11.

Reuters - The U.S. trade gap narrowed slightly in June as exports boomed, but surging oil prices and rising imports from China still kept the deficit on track for a record this year, a U.S. Commerce Department report showed on Thursday.

Reuters - ConocoPhillips said on Thursday it was declaring force majeure on Alaska oil shipments and would cut oil shipments to West Coast refineries by an unknown amount.

Reuters - The NASD ordered Citigroup Inc. to pay $1.12 million over a scheme by more than 100 brokers to obtain mutual fund sales charge waivers by falsely claiming their customers, including hedge funds, were disabled.