In Partnership with:
2039 Stories, most recent news story added 2 hours 16 minutes ago
Hong Kong, where the securities regulator this month proposed introducing civil liability for banks working on initial share sale prospectuses, may also allow class-action lawsuits to help investors seek damages.
Nintendo Co., a gaming console maker that gets a third of its revenue from Europe, climbed 2.6 percent. Honda Motor Co. (7267) , a car manufacturer that depends on North America for nearly half its sales, rose 1 percent after U.S. consumer confidence rose to the highest since 2007. Renesas Electronics Corp., the world’s biggest maker of automotive microcontrollers, sank 6.6 percent on plans to ...
American depositary receipts of Sony Corp., Japan ’s biggest consumer-electronics exporter, gained 0.4 percent from the closing share price in Tokyo. ADRs of China Southern Airlines Co. (1055) , Asia’s largest carrier by passenger numbers, dropped 2 percent.
NATIONALISED SPANISH lender Bankia will seek €19 billion in state funds to cover writedowns on residential mortgages and lending to companies, taking the cost of rescuing Spain’s fourth biggest lender to €23.5 billion.
Numbers are lazy. Bigger numbers are even lazier. Or perhaps it’s just that people like me who quote them all the time are lazy about how we use them. That’s probably because after a while you pass so many noughts before you trip over a decimal point that their impact is lost in the interference.
Australian shares are poised to extend losses to a fourth day as worries about Europe continue to weigh on global markets.
Montgomery County planners have submitted their draft vision for a new sector plan surrounding the Glenmont Metrorail station that would encourage development of a low-scale, mixed-use transit center.
The cost of Greece exiting the euro would be unmanageable and probably exceed the €1 trillion ($1.66 trillion) previously estimated by the Institute of International Finance, says the group's managing director.The Washington-based...
The Association of Banks, effectively funded by the public, works to keep interest rates and fees high.
Gold imports to India declined 32.4 per cent in 2011-12, as the government stepped up measures to control the precious metal’s flow into the country, including rises in import duties.
A Subaru BRZ sports coupe is driven as employees applaud at the manufacturing plant in Ota City, Japan, where the vehicle co-developed with Toyota is made. Fuji Heavy Industries, the maker of Subaru, is cranking up domestic production in spite of the strong yen.
For all the trillions pumped into the global financial system to save it, the thing is that the world's economic problems aren't monetary in nature.
The cost of Greece exiting the euro would be unmanageable and probably exceed the 1 trillion euros ($1.25 trillion) previously estimated by the Institute of International Finance, the group’s managing director said.
As the euro crisis sends the stock market tumbling, investment experts remain surprisingly upbeat about equities.
The feeble reaction to Beecroft suggests a lack of political vision.
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Bank of America Corp. and Barclays Bank PLC are selling their stake in the apartment building owner Archstone to Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate for $1.58 billion.
