US stocks traded mixed Friday after ExxonMobil and Chevron profits slumped on falling crude oil prices, dragging down the Dow, as investors digested a slew of corporate earnings reports. About 50 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 26.36 points (0.15 percent) at 17,719.62. The broad-market S&P 500 was flat (0.00 percent) at 2,108.63, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index gained 6.60 (0.13 percent) at 5,135.39.
Hurt by falling oil prices, Chevron said Friday that its second-quarter net income plunged 90 percent from the same period a year ago. Shares of Chevron Corp. fell nearly 4 percent in morning trading Friday. …
Steven Finn has admitted his match-winning performance against Australia was beyond his wildest dreams.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Pass rusher Junior Galette’s agent says the outside linebacker has agreed to a one-year contract with the Washington Redskins for the league minimum.
Christina Applegate and Christian Slater are finally coming clean about those pesky romance rumors. On Thursday night’s episode of The Late Late Show, the 43-year-old actress and the…
Plane debris that washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from a Boeing 777, Malaysian authorities said Friday, making it almost certainly the first piece of wreckage recovered from missing flight MH370. This could be the convincing evidence that MH370 went down in the Indian Ocean,” Malaysia’s deputy transport minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi told AFP. The Malaysia Airlines flight was one of only three Boeing 777s to have been
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Orioles have agreed to obtain left fielder Gerardo Parra from the Milwaukee Brewers in a trade for a minor league pitcher.
