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Sinopec to sell $17.4 billion stake to investors
September 15th, 2014
Shares in China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, known as Sinopec, fell on Monday morning as markets reacted to the company’s plans to raise $17.4 billion by selling a stake in its nationwide chain of gas stations to outside investors. ...
More sanctions against Russia from the EU
September 12th, 2014
The European Union tightened economic sanctions against Russia on Friday, in response to the country’s role in the Ukraine crisis, imposing additional restrictions on oil companies and extending asset freezes and travel bans to 24 more individuals. The measures, ...
Google warned of harder line from EU
September 11th, 2014
The EU’s incoming digital policy chief has put Google on notice that it faces a potentially more hostile Brussels regime, suggesting the US group could be forced to be neutral in presenting search results. The US internet group has ...
PwC to face U.S. lawsuit over Colonial Bank collapse
September 11th, 2014
Accounting firms PricewaterhouseCoopers and Crowe Horwath must face a lawsuit accusing them of professional malpractice and breach of contract for not catching a fraud that led to the 2009 collapse of Colonial Bank, a federal judge has ruled. Filed ...
Asian shares wary before Obama speech, dollar soars vs yen
September 11th, 2014
Asian share market sentiment was cautious on Thursday after U.S. President Barack Obama vowed to fight Islamic State militants, while the dollar pushed to fresh six-year highs against the yen. Chinese inflation data pointing to an economy losing momentum ...
China’s Tianhe denies overstating profits, cites investor support
September 11th, 2014
Tianhe Chemicals (1619.HK) has denied allegations that it made false statements in its initial public offering prospectus and said key investor Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (MSPEA) has given it full support. A report by Anonymous Analytics, which describes ...
Hertz CEO steps down for accounting errors
September 9th, 2014
Mark Frissora has resigned as chief executive of Hertz Global Holdings Inc, citing personal reasons, as pressure from investors mounts following a series of accounting errors. Hertz’s shares rose as much as 5 percent after the No. 2 U.S. ...
The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
Corn, Soybean Futures Drop as U.S. Freeze Concerns Ease
September 9th, 2014
Corn and soybean futures fell as concerns eased that frost will damage plants in parts of the U.S., the world’s top grower of the crops. Wheat dropped to a five-week low. The odds for a damaging freeze in northern ...
Brent Oil Drops Below $100 after Chinese Data
September 9th, 2014
Oil tumbled by $1 on Monday, with Brent sliding below $100 a barrel for the first time in more than a year and West Texas Intermediate tumbling to near its lowest of 2014, as Chinese and U.S. data pointed ...