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...(FT) Markets at 05:23 BST Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +22.70 (+0.11%) at 20,460 Topix up +3.63 (+0.22%) at 1,663 Hang Seng down -162.18 (-0.57%) at 28,088 US markets S&P 500: -1.03% at 2,104 DJIA down...
...Here are the targets of the corruption probe – US authorities also named the banks where accounts were used to facilitate payments and wire transfers, raising the prospect of Wall Street being involvedin...
...The protesters seized buildings in Kharkiv, Donetsk and Lugansk on Sunday....
...(Reuters) BofA fights attempt to raise ‘hustle’ fine: Bank of America hit out at the US government’s request to more than double the penalty it is seeking from the bank in a case known as “the hustle”,...
...That dividend payment is set to rise to 9% of the loan balance outstanding from 5%, for some banks as early as the end of next week.”...
...a more dovish direction after the withdrawal of Lawrence Summers from the race to be next chairman of the US central bank....
...The proposed pension and wages cuts were estimated to account for about a fifth of the €5bn savings targeted from austerity measures this year, in order to comply with an adjustment programme and efforts...
...● Unlike other big UK banks, whose first-half results have been overshadowed by other news – from Barclays’ capital raising to a new chief executive at Royal Bank of Scotland – HSBC’s focus should be more...
...(Bloomberg) Refinancing applications have soared as Americans rush to take advantage of record low rates triggered by the Federal Reserve’s programme of quantitative easing, and private companies added 162,000...
...of America Merrill Lynch, in a fund manager survey, reports the Economic Times....
...The number of US workers filing fresh unemployment claims fell 6,000 to a seasonally adjusted 439,000....
...America imported the special forces of British agriculture, and in addition a large number of literate, skilled workers in cloth and other manufactures....
...JPMorgan, while conceding that the shares were likely to come under some short-term pressure from the numbers, maintained its “overweight” stance on the stock, with a target price of €94....
...But pre-tax profit was down from ₤62.4m in 2004-05 to ₤45.1m in 2005-06. 23....
...Polish officials consider the country received little in return for its support of America in the Iraq war. Warsaw is to bring its peacekeeping unit home from Iraq this year....
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