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2013/4/30
--Stock futures tilt lower on disappointing Pfizer results, euro-zone data --European markets are mixed, as strong earnings are offset by a rise in euro-zone unemployment to a record high --Employment cost index, consumer confidence, home price data on tap By Tomi Kilgore NEW YORK --U.S. stock futures teetered just below unchanged levels, with disappointing results from blue-chip drug maker Pfizer and weak employment data out of Europe prompting a pause in the market's run to record highs.
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2013/4/30
Qiagen NV's (QGEN) first-quarter earnings fell 30% mostly on higher business integration expenses and other items as the medical-testing technologies company also said it acquired privately held software company Ingenuity Systems Inc. for $105 million , expanding its capabilities in genetic data analysis and interpretation--a key growth area in the sector.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks overcame a morning slide to help the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inch to a new record high, as Apple Inc. led a rally in technology stocks.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks overcame a morning slide to help the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index inch to a new record high, as Apple Inc. led a rally in technology stocks.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks overcame a morning slide to inch toward new highs on the last day of April, as Apple led a rally in technology stocks.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks tumbled and Treasurys rose on the last day of the month as investors weighed disappointing results from blue-chip drug maker Pfizer and some weak U.S. and European economic data.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks opened lower Tuesday as investors weighed disappointing results from blue-chip drug maker Pfizer and weak European employment data.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks pared most of their morning declines as investors piled into technology stocks to close out another month of broad stock gains.
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2013/4/30
U.S. stocks reversed a morning slide to push up towards new highs as Apple led a rally in technology stocks to close out another month of broad gains.
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2013/4/30
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 index posting its longest monthly win streak since September 2009, as investors cheered corporate earnings and ongoing monetary stimulus.
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2013/4/30
ZURICH -- UBS AG posted a better-than-expected first-quarter profit Tuesday as Switzerland's biggest bank pushes through an extended restructuring program in the wake of the financial crisis.
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2013/4/30
First Quarter 2013 Highlights: Funds from Operations (“FFO”) per share was $0.35 (flat year-over-year), FFO as Adjusted per share was $0.34 (flat year-over-year), and AFFO per share was $0.31 (flat year-over-year). Year-over-year same-store revenue and net operating income (“NOI”) growth were 5.4 percent and 6.3 percent, respectively.
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2013/4/30
KAMPALA, Uganda --The Ugandan government is considering approving construction of a 120,000 barrels-a-day pipeline to export crude oil via the East African coast once crude drilling starts in the country's oil-rich Lake Albertine rift basin, the energy and minerals ministry said Tuesday.
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Directors of UGI Corporation (NYSE: UGI) , a holding company with utility, propane marketing and energy services subsidiaries, approved an increase in the quarterly dividend of 4.6% to $0.2825 a share on the company’s common stock.
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2013/4/30
UGI Corporation (NYSE: UGI) today reported net income attributable to UGI of $173.4 million, or $1.51 per diluted share, for the second quarter of Fiscal 2013 ended March 31, 2013, compared to $133.4 million, or $1.18 per diluted share, for the prior-year period.
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2013/4/30
MoneyGram (NYSE:MGI) , a leading global money transfer company, and Ukash, a leading U.K.-based online cash payment provider and winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise for the third consecutive year, have signed a global agreement that will give Ukash customers the ability to send domestic and international money transfers from the Ukash website and receive it at any of MoneyGram’s more than 310,000 locations worldwide or through MoneyGram’s account deposit channels.
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2013/4/30
Ultimate Software (Nasdaq: ULTI) , a leading cloud provider of people management solutions, announced today its financial results for the first quarter of 2013.
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2013/4/30
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MUMBAI --Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever PLC (UL) on Tuesday made a $5.39 billion open offer to buy an additional 22.52% in its Indian unit, Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
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2013/4/30
MUMBAI --Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever PLC (UL) on Tuesday made a $5.39 billion open offer to buy an additional 22.52% in its Indian unit, Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
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2013/4/30
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2013/4/30
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2013/4/30
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PITTSBURGH , April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) announced today that the Board of Directors declared a dividend of five cents per share on U.
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2013/4/30
- First quarter reportable segment and Other Businesses income from operations of $94 million compared to $59 million for the fourth quarter of 2012 - First quarter net loss of $73 million, or $0.51 per diluted share including an after-tax charge of $22 million, or $0.16 per diluted share, related to repurchases of $542 million principal amount of our 4.00% Senior Convertible Notes due 2014 - First quarter shipments of 5.5 million tons and net sales of $4.6 billion - Strong liquidity position with $733 million of cash and $2.5 billion of total liquidity PITTSBURGH , April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- United States Steel Corporation (NYSE: X) reported a first quarter 2013 net loss of $73 million , or $0.51 per diluted share, compared to a fourth quarter 2012 net loss of $50 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, and a first quarter 2012 net loss of $219 million , or $1.52 per diluted share.
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2013/4/30
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --  Universal Technical Institute, Inc. (NYSE: UTI) , the leading provider of automotive technician training, today reported revenues for the second quarter ended March 31, 2013 of $95.1 million , a 10.5 percent decrease from $106.2 million for the second quarter of the prior year.
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2013/4/30
-- Aetna earnings slip amid deal costs --Earnings still top Wall Street expectations, and Aetna raises guidance --Insurer benefits from signs of light commercial health-insurance costs (Adds details on results.) By Jon Kamp Aetna Inc.'s (AET) first-quarter earnings declined 4.1%, partly because of costs pegged to a pending Coventry Health Care Inc. (CVH) purchase, but the health insurer's revenue and membership rolls increased.
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2013/4/30
(Update adds final pricing.) By Katy Burne and  Mike Cherney NEW YORK --
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