• Earnings schedule for week of 12/12/2011
  Major companies tentatively scheduled to report quarterly earnings next week:
• Euro rescue deal gets modest support in markets
  A deal to get almost all EU countries to tie their economies closer together received some support in the markets on Friday, even though European leaders failed to reach unanimity on the plan, with Br
• Kindred Healthcare shares sink after 4Q loss
  Shares of Kindred Healthcare Inc. tumbled Friday after the health care services provider reported a fourth-quarter loss, reduced its 2012 earnings forecast and said Medicare funding cuts had hurt some
• Condemned child killer hangs self on California death row
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A man convicted in the 1998 murder of a 9-year-old boy was found hanging in his death row prison cell on Thursday in an apparent suicide at a Northern California prison, offi
• World stocks, euro at six-week lows on recession fears
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock markets across the world slid on Wednesday to six-week lows, with Wall Street on course for a sixth straight day of losses, as shrinking factory activity in China and German