Total Seats: 100, 37 Open | Majority Needed: 51 Projected seats based on RCP poll data. Last update: Tue Oct 26, 12:22 pm ET
Total Seats: 435, 435 Open | Majority Needed: 218 Projected seats based on RCP poll data. Last update: Tue Oct 26, 12:22 pm ET
Total Seats: 50, 37 Open | Majority Needed: 26 Projected seats based on RCP poll data. Last update: Tue Oct 26, 12:22 pm ET
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stock markets rose on Thursday, having suffered their biggest one-day fall in four months, as a rebound in the dollar paused after the greenback recovered all of its losses against major currencies this year. Full Story »
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of mortgage investors seeking to pressure lenders to buy back potentially billions of dollars in bad loans says its ranks are swelling and it will soon deliver strong evidence that banks have treated investors unfairly. Full Story »
TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to trim its economic forecast on Thursday and predict a very slow exit from deflation, signaling it is ready to ease policy further if the strong yen threatens to stunt growth. Full Story »
AFP/File TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's top exchange will seek its own alliances if a planned multi-billion dollar merger of the Singapore and Sydney stock exchanges goes ahead, the bourse's head said in a report Wednesday. Full Story »
Copper led most commodities prices lower Wednesday as the dollar strengthened on building concerns about the Fed's plan to stimulate the economy. Full Story »
TOKYO - Japanese electronics and entertainment company Sony Corp. reports first-half earnings on Friday. The following is a summary of key developments and analyst opinion related to the period. Full Story »
AFP/File BRUSSELS (AFP) - The European Union heads into a showdown summit Thursday determined to draw up new rules to avoid economic crises but divided on a risky Franco-German drive to write them into a new treaty. Full Story »
Reuters SHELBY, North Carolina (Reuters) - In a stately 19th century mansion in the middle of this former textile mill town, a local political scion has formed a mortgage foreclosure resistance movement. Full Story »
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai World secured full creditor support for its $24.9 billion debt restructuring plan after the last holdout lender unloaded its claim, representatives for the companies said Wednesday. Full Story »
NEW YORK - Investors punished stocks across the clothing sector Wednesday after Jones Apparel Group Inc. said delays and higher costs, particularly of cotton, had hurt its profit and caught it well short of analyst estimates. Full Story »
WASHINGTON - Wells Fargo admitted Wednesday it made mistakes in the paperwork for thousands of foreclosure cases and promised to fix them. Full Story »
NEW ORLEANS - The federal government has set up a security zone around the wreckage of an oil rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the massive BP spill, the Justice Department said Wednesday. Full Story »
AP WASHINGTON - Republican leaders, ever more confident of their chances of winning control of the House and possibly even the Senate, have begun plotting a 2011 agenda topped by a push for more than $100 billion in spending cuts, tax reductions and attempts to undo key parts of President Barack Obama's health care and financial regulation laws. Full Story »
FREMONT, Calif. - Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. has unveiled its retooled factory in Fremont where it plans to produce its next-generation electric sedan in partnership with Toyota. Full Story »
Six days before a young Canadian lobbed a fatal grenade at a U.S. soldier, that soldier had run into a minefield and rescued two injured Afghan children, the U.S. war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base learned on Wednesday. Full Story »
Yahoo Inc. is turning to a former Internet sharpshooter at News Corp.'s media empire to fill a big hole on its management team. Full Story »
British tycoon Richard Branson has dreamed of going to space since he was a teenager. He'll get his wish when Virgin Galactic begins taking tourists into suborbital space from a specially designed spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Full Story »
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