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Europe Stock Futures Follow Asia Down on Tech; Lira Falls
April 11th, 2014
European index futures and emerging-market currencies slid as a gauge of Asian stocks dropped the most in three weeks amid a selloff in technology shares that’s cut demand for riskier assets. Nickel extended its longest rally since 2010. Contracts ...
European Stocks Rise After Two-Day Drop; Kingfisher Gains
April 9th, 2014
European stocks advanced, after the region’s equities posted their first back-to-back losses in more than three weeks. U.S. index futures were also little changed, while Asian shares outside Japan rose. Kingfisher Plc (KGF) added 1.5 percent as UBS AG ...
European Stocks Are Little Changed Amid Ukraine Tension
April 8th, 2014
European stocks were little changed, after dropping yesterday from a six-year high, as investors weighed escalating tensions between America and Russia over the future of eastern Europe. U.S. index futures and Asian shares were also little changed. Suedzucker AG ...
Gold Holds Gains as Investors Assess Pace of Stimulus After Data
April 7th, 2014
Gold held the biggest one-day advance in more than three weeks as U.S. jobs data that trailed analysts estimates damped speculation that the Federal Reserve will step up the pace of stimulus reduction. Bullion for immediate delivery traded at ...
An Old Formula May Overstate U.S. Oil Supplies
April 4th, 2014
Jan Arps is the most influential oilman you’ve never heard of. In 1945, Arps, then a 33-year-old petroleum engineer for British-American Oil Producing Co., published a formula to predict how much crude a well will produce and when it ...
Stock Futures Rise as Dollar Holds Yen Gain Before Data
April 4th, 2014
U.S. and European equity-index futures climbed and the dollar held gains against the yen and euro before a payrolls report. Stocks fluctuated in Asia, wheat slid toward its first loss in five weeks and India’s rupee fell. Contracts on ...
Ukraine crisis: NATO suspends cooperation with Moscow
April 2nd, 2014
NATO will suspend “all practical civilian and military cooperation” with Russia because of its annexation of Crimea, saying it has seen no sign that Moscow was withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border. Foreign ministers from the 28 members of ...
Europe Index Futures Rise With Asia as Yen Retreats
April 2nd, 2014
European index futures climbed with Asian stocks, Treasuries fell and the yen retreated before reports that may signal the U.S. economic recovery is gathering pace. New Zealand’s dollar weakened and gold rebounded. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index added 0.4 ...
European Stocks Climb After Weekly Gain; Novartis Gains
March 31st, 2014
European stocks rose, after the biggest weekly gain in more than a month, as investors awaited economic data out of Europe and America later this week. U.S. stock-index futures and Asian shares climbed. Novartis AG advanced 2.8 percent after ...
Siemens CEO Rebuked as German Business Defends Putin Partnership
March 31st, 2014
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deputy chided Siemens AG (SIE) Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser for traveling to Moscow, saying German companies shouldn’t sell out European values to protect business with Russia. The conflict over Kaeser’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin ...
