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...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 10,850 Currencies €/$ 1.10 (1.10) $/¥ 120.49 (120.61) £/$ 1.54 (1.54) €/£ 0.7152 (0.7132) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.06 at 49.62 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.11 at...
...AstraZeneca has announced the terms of its acquisition of Dutch-US drug company Acerta Pharma. The UK group will buy 55 per cent of the equity of the cancer specialist for $2.5bn....
...While in New York he talked about Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of his country’s state oil company PDVSA, which is supposedly up for sale....
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...she will go ahead with a state visit to Washington next month after anger in Brazil over US spying....
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: UP Asian markets Nikkei 225 up +178.96 (+1.16%) at 15,560 Topix up +8.25 (+0.65%) at 1,279 Hang Seng unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 23,366 US markets S&P 500 up +2.87 (...
...Abe et al are keen on ending deflation — but they are going to hinder that push with a fiscal tightening. No tension there, then....
...(Reuters) - Philip Stephens: A taxing problem for Google et al. (Financial Times) - Analysis: The challenges facing Anglo American’s new chief....
...Gulf Cartel drug gang * Markets: down Clinton brings to Beijing plea for maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at...
...The Makhloufs are first cousins of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The EU’s anti-fraud office, OLAF, is investigating whether the transaction broke European and US sanctions (Wall Street Journal)....
...hiding Iran dealings New York State’s financial watchdog accused Standard Chartered of hiding $250bn of transactions with the Iranian government, leaving “the US financial system vulnerable to terrorists...
...down -2.06% at 38,467 FTSE 300 Eurotop down -1.81% at 1,004 Americas DJIA down -0.27% at 12,821 S&P 500 down -0.34% at 1,353 Bovespa down -0.43% at 59,445 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.23% at 8,974 Topix down...
...+0.50% at 9,045 Topix up +0.60% at 786.35 Hang Seng down 0.00% at 20,887 Shanghai Composite down -0.58% at 2,338 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.29% at 520.45 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.34% at 5,409 Currencies...
...will seek United Nations Security Council endorsement for a plan to peacefully end the rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and pave the way for a democratically elected government within six months,...
..., opponents protest Outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh apologized for “any shortcoming” in his 33-year rule before leaving Yemen for the United States on Sunday, paving the way for a transfer of power...
...uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the FT reports....
...US avoids labeling China a ‘currency manipulator’ The Obama administration said it will press for further appreciation of the yuan and called the currency undervalued, while declining to brand China a manipulator...
...http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/26f893d0-3d43-11e1-8129-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1j7baQJyz US slaps sanctions on China state oil trader over Iran The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on China’s state-run...
...DJIA down -1.13% at 11,771 S&P 500 down -1.68% at 1,216 Bovespa unchanged 0.00% at 56,989 Asia Nikkei 225 down -1.23% at 8,375 Topix down -1.06% at 719.98 Hang Seng down -1.73% at 18,491 Shanghai Composite...
...Yemen says tip-off aided Awlaki killing Intelligence from Yemen’s government helped the US kill a top al-Qaeda cleric in a missile strike, Yemen officials claimed, even as Washington renewed its calls...
...feared that Islamabad would have warned Osama bin Laden of the US operation that killed the al-Qaeda leader, the FT reports....
...US asked India for more data on fighter setback India has agreed to provide the United States with more information about its decision last week to drop two U.S. defence companies from an $11bn fighter competition...
...complaint against Trevor Cook, Pat Kiley et al....
...In The Netherlands, ING Group fell 13 per cent to €4.00....
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