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Tag Archives: UK Gross Domestic Product

Overnight Market News – January 25, 2011

25-Jan-11

UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Unexpectedly Falls by 0.5% in Q04 2010, After Increasing by 0.7% in the Previous Quarter, as Cold Weather Hampered Services and Retail The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Lifts its Forecast for 2011 Global Economic Growth to 4.4% from the 4.2% Expected in October, On Stronger US Growth French Consumer Spending [...]

Overnight Market News – October 26, 2010

26-Oct-10

UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Rises 0.8% in Q03 2010, Compared with 1.2% in the Previous Quarter, Double Economists’ Forecast of 0.4% as Services and Construction Helped Sustain the Recovery’s Momentum and Eased Pressure on Officials to Add Stimulus El Du Pont de Nemours & Co (DuPont) Reports Q03 2010 Earnings per Share of USD [...]

Overnight Market News – September 28, 2010

28-Sep-10

UK’s Second-Quarter Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Expands 1.2%, Fastest Quarter-Over-Quarter Growth in Nine Years, Fuelled by the Biggest Jump in Government Spending Since 2008 and a Surge in Construction Oracle Corp Sues Micron Technology Inc, Alleging it Artificially Inflated the Price of Computer Memory Chips Sold to its Recently Acquired Sun Microsystems Inc Research In [...]

Overnight Market News – August 27, 2010

27-Aug-10

The Boeing Co Further Delays the Delivery of its 787 Dreamliner to Q01 2011 After a Rolls-Royce PLC Engine Blew Up in Testing Dell Inc Matches Hewlett-Packard Co’s USD 1.8B Bid For 3Par Inc, Marking the Fifth Public Offer in an Escalating Bidding War UK’s Gross Domestic Product Rises 1.2% in Q02 2010 From the [...]

Overnight Market News – March 30, 2010

30-Mar-10

Axa SA and National Australia Bank Ltd Reach Deal to Acquire Asset Manager, Axa Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd for AUD 13.3B (USD 12.3B) UK Q04 2009 Gross Domestic Product Expands at Faster-than-Estimated Pace of 0.4%, Compared with Previous Report of 0.3% Growth UK Antitrust Authorities Fine Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc GBP 28.6mm (USD [...]

Overnight Market News – February 26, 2010

26-Feb-10

Lloyds Banking Group Plc Posts an Operating Loss of GBP 6.3B for its Fiscal Year 2009, Slightly Down from a Loss of GBP 6.7B a Year Ago as Impairment Charges Grew by 60% UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Growth is Upwardly Revised for the Final Three Months in 2009 Unexpectedly Rising to 0.3%, up from [...]

Overnight Market News – December 22, 2009

22-Dec-09

UK Gross Domestic Product Shrinks Less-Than-Expected in Q03 2009, Declining 0.2% Quarter-Over-Quarter Versus Previous Measurement of a 0.3% Contraction Ford Motor Co Offers Buyout and Early Retirement Incentives to All of its 41,000 US Hourly Workers in Bid to Further Reduce Factory Costs Lloyds Banking Group Plc Agrees to Pay a Minimum of USD 3.6B [...]

Overnight Market News – October 23, 2009

23-Oct-09

UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Unexpectedly Declines for Sixth Consecutive Quarter in Q03 2009 by 0.4% from Previous Quarter, Making the Recession the Longest on Record Amazon.com Inc Third Quarter Profit Trumps Analysts’ Estimates by Jumping 69% to USD to USD 199mm or USD 0.45 per Share, Up From USD 118mm or USD 0.27 per [...]

Overnight Market News – August 28, 2009

28-Aug-09

Apple Inc and Mobile Service Provider China Unicom Ltd Signs Deal to Bring iPhone to China, the World’s Largest Mobile Market, Phones Set to Go on Sale in Fourth Quarter UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Shrinks Less-Than-Expected in the Second Quarter to a Revised Fall of 0.7% Compared with 0.8% in the Previous Quarter Second [...]

Overnight Market News – May 22, 2009

22-May-09

BankUnited Financial Corp Fails, to Cost US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp Approximately USD 4.9B UK Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Contracts 1.9% in Q01 2009 on Record Declines in Consumer Spending and Production Bank of Japan Upgrades Economic Outlook, Holds Key Interest Rate Unchanged British Airways Plc Posts Record Annual Net Loss of GBP 375mm vs [...]