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Companies avoid U.S. tax system but investors lose returns
August 18th, 2014
Establishing a tax domicile abroad to avoid U.S. taxes is a hot strategy in corporate America, but many companies that have done such “inversion” deals have failed to produce above-average returns for investors, a Reuters analysis has found. Looking ...
Sell in May? Stocks flop: Dow hits lowest level since May 20
August 8th, 2014
Stocks fell Thursday as investors continued to worry about rising global tensions despite reports of an improving U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 75 points, or 0.5%, to 16,368.27. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell ...
Stocks tumble at the open a day after Argentina defaults
July 31st, 2014
Stocks tumbled at the open Thursday as bond yields spiked and global markets took a tumble a day after Argentina defaulted on its debt. A breakdown in talks between Argentina and U.S. creditors late Wednesday sent the country plunging ...
Argentina’s credit rating follows further cuts
July 31st, 2014
Standard & Poor’s on Wednesday cut its credit rating on Argentina’s foreign-currency sovereign debt to “selective default” even as talks between officials from Latin America’s No. 3 economy and a group of holdout creditors continued in New York. S&P ...
U.S. companies search for growth overseas
July 28th, 2014
Big U.S. companies are searching for corporate growth overseas for better financial opportunities. Technology trendsetters Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Netflix Inc. all mined foreign countries to produce earnings or revenue that exceeded analysts’ projections in their ...
Fund managers unconvinced by Apple rebound as firm readies results
July 22nd, 2014
Apple, once a can’t-miss stock, is finding it tough to persuade portfolio managers to come back into the fold. The company’s shares are up 17 percent for the year, nearly three times the performance of the benchmark Standard & ...
Markets to Remain Concerned over China’s Debt
July 22nd, 2014
China’s debt has soared to two and a half times its economy, Standard Chartered estimates, highlighting the difficulties Beijing faces in balancing growth with the risk of bubbles forming in its economy. Total financial credit has surged to 251 ...
Google earnings miss; revenue jumps at Play
July 18th, 2014
Google, still the king of online advertising, reported surging second-quarter revenue, but heavy spending pushed its earnings below Wall Street expectations. ”This is a quarter that has something for everyone: the bulls and the bears,” BGC Partners analyst Colin ...
Asian shares higher as earnings lift Wall Street
July 15th, 2014
Asian stocks markets were mostly higher Tuesday, fortified by Wall Street’s growing optimism over U.S. corporate earnings and hopes for encouraging economic data in China. China, the world’s No. 2 economy, is due to report its second quarter GDP ...
Asian stocks rebound after portuguese bank scare
July 14th, 2014
Asian stocks rebounded Monday from jitters about a struggling Portuguese bank as investors looked ahead to a busy week of data releases in the U.S., China and Europe. Oil edged up to stay above $100 after tumbling more than ...
