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Hong Kong Ready for Trading Link With Shanghai
October 29th, 2014
The head of Hong Kong’s stock market regulator said Wednesday that his agency had ticked all the boxes needed to start a highly anticipated project connecting the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges, indicating delays were coming from its ...
Amazon posts big loss for Q3, shares tumble
October 24th, 2014
As quarterly losses mount, uneasy investors are selling shares. Amazon stock is down 23% this year. Amazon had warned that it would lose bundles of cash in the third quarter, and it didn’t disappoint. The Seattle-based online retailer (TICKER: ...
Stocks rise: S&P 500 up for 3rd straight day
October 21st, 2014
Nasdaq also rises for a third straight day and the Dow comes back from a 120-point drop. Stocks closed higher Monday, adding to Friday’s strong rally as investors shake off last week’s volatile trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock ...
JPMorgan’s profit misses; posts unexpected $1 billion legal expense
October 15th, 2014
JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) reported lower-than-estimated third-quarter profit on Tuesday as unexpected legal expenses of $1 billion caught analysts off guard and offset strength in its capital markets and lending businesses. The bulk of the costs came from ...
ADS Securities eyes investment banking move
October 10th, 2014
Abu Dhabi’s ADS Securities is expanding into new services including investment banking and asset management following its acquisition of a London brokerage firm, its vice chairman and executive managing director said on Tuesday. Privately owned ADS, which started operations ...
Earnings season begins with dollar in spotlight
October 8th, 2014
The bar is low for earnings season, with a strong dollar and slowing global growth. The third-quarter earnings season kicks off on Wall Street Wednesday with the bar set low due to analysts slashing profit forecasts — but also ...
German Companies continue their business activity
September 23rd, 2014
A rare bright spot in the European economy in recent years, many of the biggest German companies have begun capitalizing on their strength, striking big deals for overseas competitors. Germany’s businesses have been the rare bright spot in the ...
Argentina says ‘many creditors’ want to swap into local law debt
September 5th, 2014
Many investors are interested in swapping global Argentine bonds for paper governed by local law, cabinet chief Jorge Capitanich said on Friday, a day after the Senate approved the proposed debt exchange as a way to circumvent U.S. court ...
Futures edge higher ahead of Jackson Hole meeting, data
August 21st, 2014
U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Thursday, ahead of a flurry of economic data and the start of the meeting of top central bankers and economists in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Policymakers are due to discuss the labor markets ...
Wall Street banks take heart from leveraged loan exams
August 5th, 2014
Wall Street banks have found a U.S. review of their junk-rated loans to have yielded similar results to last year, easing some concern among bankers about a crackdown on one of their most lucrative businesses. Making junk-rated loans to ...
