UK Retail Sales Gain 1.9% in January Following a 1.4% Decline in the Prior Month, Marking the Biggest Increase in a Year and Exceeding Economists’ 0.5% Forecast as Consumer Spending Rebounded Moody’s Investors Service Downgrades German Banks’ Subordinated Debt Securities Valued at EUR 24B on the Prospect that New Legislation Will Increase the Risk of [...]
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 [...]
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UK Retail Sales At Stores Open At Least 12 Months Decline 0.3% in December from a Year Earlier, Compared With a 0.7% Gain in November as Snow Deterred Holiday Shopping Portugal Will Not Ask for a Bailout Says Prime Minister Jose Socrates, as the Budget Deficit Was Lower Than the 7.3% of Gross Domestic Product [...]
China’s Economy Expands at 9.6% in Q03 2010, the Smallest Gain in a Year Despite Topping Economists’ Median Estimate of 9.5%, as Inflation Accelerated in September to the Fastest Pace in 23 Months The US Federal Reserve Reports that the US Economy Continued to Grow at a Modest Pace in Recent Weeks with Growth Picking [...]
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Japan’s Prime Minister Signals Willingness to Keep Intervening to Curb Yen Strength as Sagging Manufacturing Confidence Underscored the Currency’s Threat to the Fragile Economic Recovery UK Retail Sales Contract 0.5% in August versus Calls for a 0.3% Gain, The First Decline Since January as Consumers Reduced Spending on Books, Sporting-Goods and Pharmaceuticals US Foreclosure Filings [...]
US Investment Bank Goldman Sachs Group, Inc Sues French Investment Bank Natixis SA in London High Court, Claiming Damages for Breach of Contract Regarding Credit Default Swaps The Largest US Department-Store Chain, Sears Holdings Corp Narrows Q02 2010 Loss to USD 39mm or USD 0.35 per Share from USD 94mm or USD 0.79 per Share [...]
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Swiss Legislators Approve Law For Government to Hand Over Names of US Tax Evaders to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in UBS AG Tax Case UK Retail Sales Increases More Than Expected in May Ahead of Soccer World Cup, Rising 0.6% on Higher Sales of Electrical-Goods and Food BP Plc to Set up USD 20B [...]
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Dubai Commits USD 9.5B to Dubai World for Debt Restructuring Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) Announces Plans to Sell Up to USD 3.7B Worth of Convertible Bonds to Bolster Balance Sheet Credit Suisse Group AG Increased Chief Executive Officer, Brady Dougan’s Salary by Almost Seven-Fold Last Year to CHF 19.2mm (USD 17.9mm) [...]
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US Federal Reserve Raises the Discount Rate by 25 Basis Points to 0.75% as it Attempts to Move its Emergency Program for Banks Closer to Normal Anglo American Plc Beats Profit Estimates After Reporting Underlying Earnings of USD 2.14 per Share, the Company Expects to Resume Dividend Payments in 2010 UK Retail Sales Slips 1.8% [...]
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Google Inc Tops Fourth Quarter Earnings Forecast Reporting Profit of USD 6.79 per Share (Excluding Items) Above the Year Earlier Period’s USD 5.10 and the Average Analyst Estimate of USD 6.48 Russian Aluminum Giant UC Rusal Ltd Raises USD 2.24B from its Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Hong King Stock Exchange UK Retail Sales [...]