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...As the COVID-19 crisis worsened, investors shifted a record amount of assets to cash in March....
...Microsoft announced its all-cash $26.2bn acquisition of LinkedIn, sending shares in the former down 2.6 per cent to $50.14 and shares in the latter up nearly 47 per cent to $192.21 (just shy of the $196...
...(Financial Times) Lloyds has increased the amount of shares it is selling in its newly created TSB offshoot by about 40 per cent in response to stronger than expected demand from investors....
...(Financial Times) BHP Billiton mined a record amount of iron ore in the 12 months to July, beating its own forecasts, and said production would expand further in 2015 as the company squeezes extra capacity...
...Markets: Asian markets were under pressure in the face of fresh tension in Ukraine and after the S&P 500 dropped to a two-month low on Friday....
...Bank of America said in the filing that it should only have to pay the amount it made in profit from selling the loans, which it contended was zero.”...
...Hang Seng down -14.36 (-0.06%) at 23,192 US markets S&P 500 down -6.77 (-0.38%) at 1,757 DJIA down -73.01 (-0.47%) at 15,546 Nasdaq down -10.91 (-0.28%) at 3,920 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +5.16...
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...The firms plan to invest as much as $1 billion, with half of the money coming from funds run by Los Angeles-based Oaktree, and may increase that amount depending on the success of the deals, said a person...
...According to the filing, the company has set a place holder amount of $100m to calculate fees ahead of a possible listing. The number of shares and the offering price have not been determined....
...(Financial Times) Eurozone banks cut securitised loans: The outstanding amount of securitised loans in the eurozone fell to €1.33tn, representing a year-on-year decline of 8.6% according to data from the...
...(FastFT) “The U.S....
...This compares to 16.2% growth rate in 2012, and is the lowest rate since 2009′s growth rate of 13.8%....
...In remarks prepared for the opening of the country’s annual parliament meetings on Tuesday, outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao said China would target a 2013 fiscal deficit of Rmb1.2tn ($192.8bn), or about 2% of...
...http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-06/pboc-official-says-u-s-election-won-t-impact-yuan-level.html Qatar, UAE seek up to $7.6bn in Lockheed defenses Qatar and the United Arab Emirates want to buy Lockheed...
...as cooling global demand hurt the nation’s exports, even as signs of a recovery in China and the U.S. signal the economy may have bottomed....
...Oil and gas investment is flooding into the region in amounts not seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall....
...ftcamp=rss Iran’s spymaster counters US moves in the Mideast In the smoldering geopolitical feud between the U.S. and Iran, spymaster Major-General Qasem Soleimani is emerging as director of the Islamic...
...Markets: mixed China to let in more foreign investment China has almost tripled the amount of money foreign institutions can invest in its capital markets, in the latest move aimed at loosening strict capital...
...· Under Scenario 1, the Tier 1 ratio of 20 banks in our sample of 47 could fall below 6%. (Under Scenario 2, the number of banks affected rises to 21.)...
...down -0.49% at 844.20 Hang Seng down -0.73% at 22,407 Shanghai Composite down -0.47% at 2,696 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.70% at 573.00 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.52% at 5,516 Currencies €/$ 1.43 (1.43) $...
...It also said it planned to buy a proposed 40 per cent stake in Cairn’s Indian subsidiary at a reduced amount of $6.02bn....
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