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Growing software businesses such as Internet-based computing and data analytics helped IBM boost earnings per share for the 40th consecutive quarter a full decade even as revenue was largely flat.

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Strong earnings reports from big U.S. companies helped push the Dow Jones industrial average to its eighth gain in nine sessions.

For the second year in a row, DoubleLine Capital was the fastest growing manager of actively managed stock and bond funds, according to a new report.

A leading lobby group for the world's financial institutions is warning investors not to get caught short in emerging markets if rich-country central banks end their easy and cheap money policy of the past few years.

Verizon Communications' fourth-quarter losses escalated, dragged down by restructuring, pension and Superstorm Sandy costs.