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- Analysis: Beyond Chinese New Year data skew, a bear lurks
BEIJING (Reuters) - Trying to track China's economic course during the Lunar New Year can leave analysts howling at the moon. January auto sales tumbled, yet oil imports were the third highest on record. A measure of factory activity picked up, but trade data was weak. A closer examination of the numbers shows bearish signals lurking beneath the confusing headlines. Western banking analysts ...
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - As Facebook IPO nears, the case for dull stocks
Investors thinking of buying a piece of Facebook after it goes public are hoping it will perform like Google, whose stock has risen 500 percent since its debut seven and a half years ago.
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - Greece on strike as bailout deal in limbo
Thousands took to the streets of Athens as unions launched a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures on Friday, a day after Greece's crucial international bailout was put in limbo by its partners in the 17-nation eurozone.
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - Areva-UraMin deal followed suspicious trading: report
French nuclear power group Areva's purchase of Canadian uranium producer UraMin in 2007 for a high price was preceded by suspicious stock trades indicative of insider trading, a report said Saturday.
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - Analysis: CME Group prepares to slim super-sized board
CHICAGO (Reuters) - CME Group Inc's super-sized board of directors is about to go on a diet, but the results are going to take a while to show. The giant futures exchange operator, which owns the 164-year-old Chicago Board of Trade and offers trading on assets from oil to interest rates, has the largest board at any U.S. publicly traded company. Despite changes like electronic trading that have ...
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - Beyond Chinese New Year data skew, a bear lurks
BEIJING (Reuters) - Trying to track China's economic course during the Lunar New Year can leave analysts howling at the moon. January auto sales tumbled, yet oil imports were the third highest on record. A measure of factory activity picked up, but trade data was weak. A closer examination of the numbers shows bearish signals lurking beneath the confusing headlines. Western banking analysts ...
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - Turbo-traders take Bank of America for a ride
On a normal day, 4 billion shares of stock change hands on the New York Stock Exchange. One in 10 belongs to a single company. It's not McDonald's or IBM, both of which have been on a tear.It's Bank of ...
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - US House adopts insider trading ban
The US House of Representatives on Thursday overwhelmingly adopted a bill aimed at explicitly banning insider trading by lawmakers who face deep election-year anger at politicians and Wall Street.
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012 - S&P suffers year's biggest loss as Greek deal falters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The S&P 500 posted its biggest daily percentage decline thus far in 2012 on Friday after an about-face on Greece's long-awaited debt deal ended a five-week streak of gains for equities. All but one of the 30 Dow components ended lower while all 10 S&P sectors fell, with cyclical sectors such as energy, financials and materials the biggest losers. The CBOE Volatility index ...
trading days in a year 12 Feb 2012
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