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U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday morning, as investors placed their hopes on the possibility that the Federal Reserve will finally break its steady stream of quarter-point rate increases. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) was up 42 points at 11,262. The S&P 500 (SPX) and the Nasdaq Composite (RIXF) were up 3.20 points at 1, 278.97 and up 6.36 points at 2,078.86. Volume is expecte ...

Brian O'Connor, Daily Mail7 August 2006 BRITISH investors are having to get used to the fact that an investment on the London Stock Exchange may have little to do with UK plc. OTHER STORIES Market report: Tuesday 16.00 Becht looks safe as houses Whittaker's top share tips Sunday newspaper share tips £300m Standard Life shares unclaimed THE EDITOR'S PICKS TOP STORY: Is  ...

By David Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Scottish & Newcastle Plc (SCTN.L: Quote, Profile, Research) , Britain's biggest brewer, posted a 12 percent rise in first-half earnings but its UK margins suffered as the soccer World Cup encouraged a switch to take-home beers and larger pack sizes. The margin concerns sent shares in the Edinburgh-based company down 3 percent in morning trade. They were the FTSE 100 index's biggest loser, even though the rise in pretax profit was in line with analysts' foreca ...

By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks (VIAb.N: Quote, Profile, Research) (VIA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to distribute clips from its cable networks over Google Inc.'s (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) advertising network, in a test of what could become a new economic model for Web-based video delivery, the companies said on Sunday. The project, a year in the making, marks the first time Google will distribute ad- ...

By Kenneth Li and Eric Auchard NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media said on Monday that signed a multiyear deal to use Google Inc.'s search and advertising system to direct traffic across its network of Internet sites, including the wildly popular MySpace.com. Google said it had agreed to pay Fox at least $900 million in revenue share payments based on certain traffic and other commitments promised by Fox over the next three years and nine months,  ...