December E-mini S&Ps (ESZ14 -0.04%) this morning are down -0.07%, although European stocks are up +0.89% after German investor confidence rose more than expected to a 4-month high.

We believe consumer spending uncertainty still lingers amid sluggish economic growth in the U.S. with customers reducing their non-essential purchases.

The Time Warner/Fox deal points to one specific thing - the value of content in media, says Tim Armstrong, AOL chairman & CEO.

Twenty-First Century Fox's Rupert Murdoch is determined to buy Time Warner Inc after the media conglomerate rejected an $80 billion buyout offer from Twenty-First Century Fox Inc, the New York Times reported.

Today the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that TV start-up Aereo violates copyright law by using tiny antennas to provide subscribers with broadcast network content via the Internet and this news was basically a big win for those in the network industry