THE board of Hewlett-Packard has ousted chief executive officer Carly Fiorina after five years in which the company’s shares fell more than 50%.

Wall Street got a badly needed break from oil price worries today, with stocks rising modestly as Saudi Arabia indicated that OPEC should increase its daily output.

A bad jobs report today halted Wall Street’s 2004 rally, sending stocks sharply lower as investors cashed in profits from the market’s recent advance.

THE idea that there are companies generating more wealth than Ireland has been debunked by the United Nations.