Member 740Barclays takes close to $2 billion writedown, keeps capital opti (Reuters)15-05-2008 17h22Reuters - British bank Barclays said profits fell by an undisclosed amount in the first quarter and refused to rule out a rights issue after a 1 billion pound ($1.95 billion) writedown on assets tarnished by the credit crunch. Trial set to start in Parmalat case vs Citigroup (Reuters)15-05-2008 13h41Reuters - More than four years after the meltdown of Italy's Parmalat SpA, the food company is set to begin presenting its case to a U.S. jury on Thursday accusing Citigroup Inc of playing a key role in its collapse. Sony shares jump after profit forecast (Reuters)15-05-2008 17h04Reuters - Shares of Sony Corp (6758.T) soared 9 percent to their highest in two and a half months on Thursday after it forecast an unexpectedly big operating profit this year as it aims to boost flat TV sales and wipe away losses on the PlayStation 3 game console. Agricole to sell assets, restructure Calyon (Reuters)15-05-2008 17h30Reuters - Credit Agricole SA , France's biggest retail bank, will sell assets and restructure its Calyon investment banking arm, it said on Thursday as it confirmed a 5.9 billion euro ($9.1 billion) rights issue. Google social network ad business "improving": Brin (Reuters)15-05-2008 18h32Reuters - Google Inc co-founder Sergey Brin said on Thursday advertising on social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace was getting better, but was still not perfect. Economy - Wednesday (Investor's Business Daily)15-05-2008 07h55Investor's Business Daily - The Mortgage Bankers Association said mortgage applications for the week ended May 9 rose 2.9% to 674.4. The group said applications rose for a 2nd week as lower interest rates sparked a 6.5% jump in refinancing activity. Applications for buying a home fell 0.7%. With Treasury yields near 2008 highs, mortgage rates are moving back up. Three Former SEC Chairmen Endorse Obama's Presidential Bid (Bloomberg)14-05-2008 21h58Bloomberg - May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama picked up the endorsement today of three former chairmen of the Securities and Exchange Commission, two of whom were appointed by Republican presidents. French bank Natixis reports profit slump on another subprime hit (AFP)15-05-2008 18h13AFP - French investment bank Natixis said on Thursday its first-quarter earnings plunged 88 percent after it had to take further write-downs on its exposure to the US subprime home loan crisis. Macy's affirms full-year forecast (Reuters)15-05-2008 01h27Reuters - Macy's Inc reported a quarterly loss on Wednesday, hurt by restructuring costs and falling sales, but the department store operator stood by its full-year earnings forecast and its shares rose as much as 8 percent. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 2114 Member 4939 Member 1724 Member 1890 Member 2797 Member 761 Member 4755 Member 1596 Member 2993 Member 594 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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