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...in Latin America....
...Average selling prices have exceeded £273,000 per unit for the first time in the company’s history....
...Ashtead is now almost a wholly North American business, with its C$275m (£172m) acquisition of Canadian equipment rental business CRS in August adding to the 92 per cent of operating profit it already generated...
...The Mexican currency gained as much as 2 per cent to 19.4848 pesos per dollar, while the Canadian dollar gained 0.3 per cent to buy $0.7585 of its US counterpart....
...(Bloomberg) In the news Baltimore riots The US state of Maryland declared a state of emergency and deployed national guard troops as rioters clashed with police in the city of Baltimore....
...US secretary of state John Kerry and Ban Ki-Moon, secretary-general of the UN, said in a statement that an “unconditional humanitarian ceasefire” had been agreed by all parties and would begin at 8am local...
...102.75 (102.75) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.39 at 108.41 Light Crude (Nymex) up +0.42 at 98.41 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +2.00 at 1,372...
...The prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, asked parliament to declare a state of emergency after Sunni militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (Isis), which operates in Iraq and neighbouring...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...) at 4,306 Dax down -119.10 (-1.28%) at 9,189 Currencies €/$ 1.39 (1.39) $/¥ 102.75 (102.75) £/$ 1.67 (1.66) €/£ 0.8365 (0.8365) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.39 at 108.41 Light Crude (Nymex)...
...(Reuters) “Exxon Mobil Pipeline faces a fine of nearly $2.7 million for a pipeline spill of thousands of barrels of Canadian crude oil in an Arkansas suburb last spring, the U.S. pipeline safety office...
...://on.ft.com/187UgGV Emerging Markets MSCI Emerging Market Index down -0.41% at 997.62 Americas DJIA up +0.77% at 15,495 S&P 500 up +0.57% at 1,698 Bovespa up +0.04% at 53,822 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.15%...
...A consortium of investors led by Fairfax Financial, BlackBerry’s largest shareholder, will invest an additional $1bn in the Canadian group instead of confirming a $4.7bn takeover proposal it outlined six...
...chart-topping, games in Clash of Clans and Hay Day....
...CNX Nifty up +0.17% at 5,850 Currencies €/$ 1.34 (1.33) $/¥ 99.12 (99.05) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.53 at 109.54 Light Crude (Nymex) down -0.31 at 106.28 100 Oz Gold (Comex) unchanged 0.00...
...The pre-emptive step aims to avoid stricter EU conditions on state support to banks and a £471,000 cap on executive pay....
...(Bloomberg) Private investors have flocked to buy shares in Royal Mail, with 700,000 individual applications leaving the retail offer seven times subscribed in an echo of the privatisation frenzies of the...
...Net losses widened 41 per cent to $69.3m in the first half of this year, a period in which it made acquisitions, after shrinking during 2012 to $79.4m....
...His speaking schedule for the two months following our lunch requires three return trips from his home in east London to North America. He has almost 300,000 followers on Twitter....
...(Bloomberg) BlackBerry has agreed to be bought by a consortium of Canadian investment companies, led by Prem Watsa’s Fairfax Financial, for $4.7bn in cash and taken private, in a last-ditch move to ensure...
...(Financial Times) JPMorgan to be faulted over Madoff: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is expected to issue a cease-and-desist order against JPMorgan for failing to conduct adequate due diligence...
...The price equates to $2,400 an acre, less than the $7,000 to $8,000 at which Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake valued the asset in a July presentation.”...
...(Reuters) JP Morgan to cut 17,000 jobs, a 6.5% headcount reduction in 2013 and 2014, the majority of which will come from its consumer banking and mortgage groups....
...(Financial Times) Petronas agreed to Progress big extension: “Malaysian state oil firm Petronas has agreed to the Canadian government’s extension of a review of its C$5.17 billion ($5.2 billion) bid for...
...sales, and currency headwinds....
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