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- LSE computer problem halts trading in 300 UK stocks
- A technical problem at the London Stock Exchange yesterday halted trading in nearly 300 UK stocks, including the exchange's own shares.Trading was frozen from 3:04pm until the close due to the failure of one server, the exchange said. The glitch affected one in 12 of its UK markets, including...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Goldman's private equity arm plans to invest in Geely
- A private equity unit of Goldman Sachs is poised to invest around $250m in Geely Automobile Holdings, China's largest privately-owned car maker, according to a person familiar with the matter.Goldman Sachs Capital Partners will buy convertible bonds and warrants issued by Geely's Hong Kong-listed subsidiary. People familiar with the...
- External links 2009-09-20
- Footsie closes over 5,000 for the first time in year
- Rumoured takeover target Lonmin underperformed yesterday as the FTSE 100 pushed on to close above 5,000 points for the first time in almost a year.The South African platinum miner closed 2.8 per cent lower at £16.64 after Merrill Lynch called time on its recent strong run. Lonmin shares have...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Falling costs strengthen Trinity Mirror
- Trinity Mirror was among the best small-cap performers yesterday, rising 16.3 per cent to 157¼p after being tipped by two leading brokers.UBS said Trinity would benefit from lower newsprint costs, which it said accounted for 15 per cent of a newspaper publisher's cost base and were likely to fall...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Flurry of mining interest revives flagging Footsie
- Bid hopes lifted Lonmin yesterday as the mining sector gave the FTSE 100 its first gain of the week.The platinum specialist was up 9.4 per cent to £15.78 after Exane BNP Paribas added its weight to speculation Xstrata will make a second bid approach.Xstrata, Lonmin's 24.9 per...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Banks and carmakers strengthen
- European equity indices ended the week on a positive note, bouncing back from a four-day losing streak after stronger-than-forecast US employment data helped support an improving mood.But the FTSE Eurofirst 300, which rose 1.3 per cent to 962.42 during trading on Friday, lost 1.6 per cent over the week...
- External links 2009-09-04
- Bullion demand at 5½-year low
- Demand for gold sank to a 5½-year low in the second quarter of 2009 with jewellery buying weakened by global economic recession."The global economic downturn has had a major impact on the purchasing power of gold consumers, as have high local prices and dollar volatility," said Aram Shishmanian, chief...
- External links 2009-08-19
- Tata secures private funding for Jaguar and Land Rover
- India's Tata Motors yesterday said it had secured private funding for its Jaguar and Land Rover marques, ending state aid talks with the UK government.Shares in India's biggest vehicles maker rose 6.81 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange following the news, in a clear sign that investors feel...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Johnson & Johnson profits beat estimates
- Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported third quarter profits that beat Wall Street estimates, but its sales declined on weak demand for pharmaceuticals.Net income at J&J jumped by 1.1 per cent to $3.3bn, or $1.20 a share, as the New Jersey-based company succeeded in cutting costs. J&J cut 900...
- External links 2009-10-13
- Vodafone prepares fresh round of cost cutting as revenues fall
- Vittorio Colao, Vodafone's chief executive, is preparing a fresh round of cost cutting as he tries to offset falling revenue at the mobile phone operator.Vodafone's shares have underperformed the FTSE 100 by 16 per cent this year, partly because of concern at how the UK company's underlying revenue at...
- News items 2009-11-08
- India purchase adds to bullion price surge
- Gold extended its record- breaking run yesterday, pushing towards the $1,100- an-ounce level following Tuesday's news that India's central bank had bought 200 tonnes of bullion from the International Monetary Fund.Gold hit a record $1,095.40 a troy ounce, up 3.4 per cent since the news from India broke, and...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Suffering delayed reaction
- Flu bugs can be contrarian. Along comes a mega-pestilence; by rights, it should fell stock prices in the worst-hit countries and put a rocket under pharmaceutical shares. Yet shares in Roche and GlaxoSmithKline have risen less than 20 per cent since swine flu hit Mexico in mid-March. The Mexican...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Vodafone strength offers support for falling Footsie
- Vodafone was among a handful of gainers yesterday as the London market headed lower.Its shares rallied 3.4 per cent to 139 by Financial Times
- News items 2009-10-22
- Price of crude oil and bullion begins to ebb
- Crude oil prices fell by more than $1 yesterday after reaching a fresh 2009 high in the previous session. Gold prices also softened as commodity markets paused for breath after recent strong gains.Nymex December West Texas Intermediate dropped $1.02 to $80.35 after hitting $82 in the previous...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Planning for upturn hurts Autonomy
- The cost of preparing for an economic upturn, including a product launch, hurt gross margins at Autonomy in the third quarter, pushing shares in the software company down 8 per cent yesterday.Cambridge-based Autonomy, whose software is used by businesses and governments to search for and analyse unstructured information such...
- External links 2009-10-20
- GM in uphill battle as it plans for IPO
- General Motors is fighting a war on several fronts as it labours to sell its Opel unit in Germany, repay debts to the US government and persuade consumers to buy its cars, but it remains on track for an initial public offering in the second half of 2010.GM, which...
- External links 2009-10-19
- Investors favour nuclear power utilities
- The pro-business credentials of Germany's incoming coalition government gave a modest boost to the country's equity markets yesterday, with investors quick to judge that some of Europe's biggest power generation companies would be among the corporate winners from Sunday's general election.Shares in Eon and RWE, the utility companies, led...
- External links 2009-09-28
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- Thomas Group Featured on Market News First
- IRVING, Texas -- Thomas Group, Inc. (NasdaqGM:TGIS), a leading operations and process improvement firm, today announced that David English, CFO and Vice President of Thomas Group, will be featured on Market News First (www.mn1.com) on June 1, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. CDT in an exclusive live interview with the MN1...
- Research articles 2007-05-31
- Global Triad, Inc. CEO Carl Olivieri to Join Market News First Radio Show on May 2nd
- Global Triad, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GBTD) today announced that Carl Olivieri, the company's CEO, will be joining MN1.com live at 10:45 am on May 2nd for a discussion of GBTD's business and Strategic Plan for the balance of 2007. To listen to the broadcast, visit www.MN1.com and click "MN1...
- Research articles 2007-04-19
- Market Broadcasting Corporation and Market News Service launch "PC Trader", a real-time quotes, news and analysis platform for the Internet; Market News Service, GovPX, and MMS International provide news, quotes, and analysis
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--April 30, 1996--Market Broadcasting Corporation MBC and Market News Service, Inc. announce the roll-out of PC Trader, a new Internet platform that broadcasts real-time financial information to personal computers. PC Trader offers price quotes, news, economic data, and analysis focused on the fixed income and currency markets....
- Research articles 1996-04-30
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