wednesday afternoon

While the Senate Communications Subcommittee was preparing to hear from executives at Cablevision, Time Warner Cable, News Corp., Univision and Ovation about the retransmission consent process in a hearing Wednesday afternoon, plenty of others were weighing in beforehand with their own informal testimony.

The American International Group said Wednesday afternoon that it has settled its long-running legal battle with Maurice R.

Hotel companies' shares were mixed on Wednesday afternoon after a Barclays Capital analyst, calling herself "extremely bearish," downgraded the lodging sector and said an industry recovery is likely to lag far behind an economic recovery.

Shares of U.S. carriers slid lower in Wednesday afternoon trading after two days of gains.