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...When consensus has delivered huge economic dividends, people who ask tough questions can look like wreckers....
...Staffordshire, England Polymath 1,040: Patricia Blakemore, West Midlands, England Crossword 16,272: Martha F Browne, New York; Sean Putnam, Wellingborough, UK; Richard Cauman, Knoxville, US Polymath 1,039...
...The venue itself was an awkward reminder of Johnson’s reputation in EU circles as an untrustworthy wrecker; as a journalist in Brussels in the 1990s, he had “revealed” non-existent plans to dynamite the...
...(Wired, FT) ‘The portfolio wrecker’ Investors have something new to worry about. Equity and bond prices are increasingly falling at the same time....
...This morning, the yen is flat at Y113.81 per dollar, while the yield on 10-year JGBs is down 3.4 basis points at -0.039 per cent....
...It has said it is considering significant changes to its news service to aid publishers struggling to make money online....
...Nasdaq has been pushing into corporate services to diversify beyond equities trading and market listings but the move has come with high profile missteps....
...Altera was the best performing stock on the S&P 500, which rose 0.2 per cent to 2,111.73, with shares rising 6 per cent to $51.68 after Intel agreed to buy the chipmaker for $16.7bn....
...The S&P 500 ended the session flat at 2,039.82, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.1 per cent to 17,634.74 and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.2 per cent to 4,688.54....
...Gazprom’s net profit fell 10 per cent last year to $38.2bn, amid declining gas sales and one-time payments to consumers. http://on.ft.com/101eWue Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.03% at 1,039...
...P 500 down -0.76% at 1,436 Bovespa up +0.89% at 60,998 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.19% at 10,039 Topix down -0.09% at 838.61 Hang Seng up +0.16% at 22,660 Shanghai Composite up +0.28% at 2,168 MSCI Asia ex-Japan...
...P 500 down -0.11% at 1,403 Bovespa up +1.12% at 56,864 Asia Nikkei 225 down -0.12% at 8,669 Topix up +0.01% at 718.15 Hang Seng down -0.18% at 19,110 Shanghai Composite up +0.05% at 2,039 MSCI Asia ex-Japan...
...-0.02 (0.00%) at 1,341 DJIA down -48.59 (-0.38%) at 12,605 European markets Eurofirst 300 unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 1,039 FTSE100 up +0.41 (+0.01%) at 5,664 CAC 40 down -18.16 (-0.57%) at 3,157 Dax up...
...-1.15% at 739.98 Hang Seng down -1.51% at 18,890 Shanghai Composite down -0.78% at 2,315 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -1.17% at 473.78 S&P CNX Nifty Index down -0.22% at 5,039 Currencies €/$ 1.34 (1.34) $/¥...
...BP claims Halliburton destroyed evidence BP has accused Halliburton, the oil services group, of intentionally destroying evidence relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year...
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +2.44% at 992.19 Americas DJIA up +3.98% at 11,240 S&P 500 up +4.74% at 1,173 Bovespa up +5.10% at 51,151 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.05% at 9,039 Topix up +0.82%...
...The Financial Services Commission said it will ban short selling on all shares until Nov. 9 from today....
...P 500 down -0.13% at 1,338 Bovespa down -1.33% at 63,039 Asia Nikkei 225 up +1.10% at 10,082 Topix up +0.96% at 873.51 Hang Seng down -1.01% at 22,518 Shanghai Composite down -0.21% at 2,810 MSCI Asia ex-Japan...
...Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index up +0.02% at 1,166 Americas DJIA down -0.10% at 12,570 S&P 500 down -0.13% at 1,338 Bovespa down -1.33% at 63,039 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.25% at 9,997 Topix up...
...Initial meetings between Tory ministers and security service chiefs showed that Baroness Thatcher wanted all union “wreckers” to be identified – only to be told that this would go beyond MI5’s charter, which...
...Banks and financial services providers remain some of the region’s best performers over the past few weeks, however....
...The Nikkei 225 average closed 0.2 per cent lower at 13,039.69 and the broader Topix index ended 0.4 per cent lower at 1,285.91....
...Lower down the market, the FTSE 250 advanced 150.2 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 11,039.5. Housebuilders recovered some lost ground....
...By the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.7 per cent at 10,039.13, while the broader S&P 500 was 0.4 per cent lower at 1,108.72. The Nasdaq Composite added 0.2 per cent to 1,888.56....
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