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Overnight Market News – August 24, 2011

24-Aug-11

Verizon Wireless Reports that it will, in Addition to Sprint Nextel Corp and AT&T Inc, Begin Selling Apple Inc’s iPhone 5 in Mid-October Moody’s Investors Service Cuts Japan’s Credit Rating One Step to Aa3, With a Stable Outlook, Citing Weak Prospects for Economic Growth The Largest European Banks Slash 40k Jobs in the Past Month [...]

Overnight Market News – January 21, 2011

21-Jan-11

UK Retail Sales Drop 0.8% from the Previous Month When They Rose 0.4%, the Most Ever for a December as Snowfall and Higher Prices Undermined Britons’ Holiday Shopping Google Inc Reports Profit of USD 8.75 per Share Excluding One-Time Items, Up from USD 6.79 per Share a Year Earlier, Announces Co-Founder Larry Page as New [...]

Overnight Market News – September 24, 2010

24-Sep-10

German Business Confidence Unexpectedly Rises to a Three-Year High of 106.8 in September From 106.7 the Prior Month, Refuting Analysts’ Expectations for a Decline to 106.4 Korea National Oil Corp Wins Control of 64.26% of Dana Petroleum Plc’s Shares in a GBP 1.87B (USD 2.9B) Hostile Takeover France’s Gross Domestic Product Rises 0.7% in Q02 [...]

Overnight Market News – June 22, 2010

22-Jun-10

UK’s Chancellor George Osborne to Reveal Later This Morning a Budget Plan Which Includes Tough Measures on Tax Increases and Spending Cuts Samsung Electronics Co Expects to Raise its Market Share for Smartphones to More Than 10% in the Fourth Quarter Aided by the Introduction of its Galaxy S Model Biovail Corp Sets to Takeover [...]

Overnight Market News – May 21, 2010

21-May-10

US Senate Passes Bill Providing Sweeping Reform of Financial Regulations on Wall Street in an Attempt to Prevent US Collapse from Recurring British Airways Plc Posts Record Annual Loss of GBP 531mm as the Company Struggled with Strikes and Winter Storms During the Year Abbot Laboratories Inc Acquires India’s Primal Healthcare Ltd’s for USD 3.7B [...]

Overnight Market News – December 18, 2009

18-Dec-09

Blackberry’s Research in Motion Ltd Third Quarter Net Profit Surges 59% to USD 628.6mm (USD 1.10 per Share) on Strong Overseas Sales, Beating Estimates of USD 1.04 per Share Oracle Corp Posts 13% Increase in Second Quarter Net Profit to USD 1.46B Up from USD 1.3B a Year Earlier,a as Sales of its Computer Programs [...]

Overnight Market News – July 24, 2009

24-Jul-09

Microsoft Corp Sales Fall for Second Consecutive Quarter, Dropping 17% to USD 13.1B for its Fourth Quarter Behind Forecasts of USD 14.4B UK Economy Shrinks by 0.8% in Second Quarter from Previous Quarter, More than Double Economists’ Forecast of a 0.3% Contraction South Korea Economy Grows by 2.3% in Second Quarter from Previous Three Months, [...]

Overnight Market News – June 22, 2009

22-Jun-09

World Bank Lowers World Economic Forecast, Says Global Economy to Shrink 2.9% this Year Versus its 1.7% Prediction in March Xstrata Plc Seeks GBP 41B (USD 68B) Merger with Rival Anglo American Plc German Business Confidence Climbs for Third Month in June, Rises to 85.9 from 84.3 in May European Central Bank Likely to Keep [...]