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Here is a recap of the top news items from this week on Wall Street: 1. Shares of Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) rose more than 6 percent on Wednesday (pushing the company's market value to thee highest in the world among publicly-trade companies) after the maker of the iPhone and iPad absolutely demolished first-quarter expectations.

Apple posted quarterly earnings of $13.87 per share on sales of $46.3 billion. The Street was looking for EPS of $10.08 on sales $46.33 billion.

Looking for second-quarter EPS of about $8.50 on sales of $32.5 billion. The Street is looking for EPS of $8.03 on

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In 2008, the future looked bright for the Smart brand in the Untied States. Gas prices had climbed to record levels, so then-distributor Penske Automotive had no trouble in selling 25,000 Smart Fortwos in the car’s first official U.S.-market year.

A remake of the postwar Fiat will have to get Americans to forget the low quality of its first incarnation on these shores.

So far, it’s working.

Android is winning the war in U.S. market when it comes to smartphone, but Apple and RIM are in a dead heat in terms of handset manufacturers, according to the latest data released on March 3 by market research firm The Nielsen Company.

(Penn State) With mortgage loan defaults on the rise yet again, two mortgage researchers are proposing a new type of mortgage contract that automatically resets the balance and the monthly payment based on the mortgaged home's market value.

As Chinese companies enter into more sophisticated businesses, security concerns make telecommunications a delicate industry in the United States.

Shares of Apple this week have been on an absolute tear. Over the past few days, Apple's share price has steadily increased, reaching new all-time closing and intraday highs day after day.

For a brief period on Thursday, Apple's market cap was the second largest in the world

It might sound like a response to a question no one was asking, but Mitsubishi Motors CEO Osamu Masuko says he's not even thinking about leaving the U.S. market.

Mitsubishi, like many other carmakers, has struggle over the past decade, but Masuko says the U.S. will remain at the core of Mitsubishi's plan for the foreseeable future.

Do you like this story? Samsung held a New York City event on Thursday. A While the company did cover other thigns, the main focus of the event was really to introduce the U.S. market to the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which had already been intro'ed at IFA in Berlin earlier this month.