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Alibaba IPO Update
July 16th, 2014
Investors were given an update on the Alibaba IPO on Tuesday, when Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) reported second-quarter earnings. Yahoo owns a 24% stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) and will be selling a large percentage of ...
Goldman Sachs earnings rise, beating estimates
July 15th, 2014
Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs’ earnings rose in the second quarter, defying pessimistic forecasts betting on a sharp drop-off. Strong results in Goldman’s investment banking and investing and lending units helped drive the firm’s quarterly earnings to $2.04 billion ...
Bank Earnings Give Stocks a Boost
July 15th, 2014
A better-than-expected earnings report from Citigroup C +3.02% helped kick-start a rally in stocks, lifting market indexes nearly back to levels seen before last week’s swoon. Many investors remain optimistic about the outlook for stocks broadly, amid improving U.S. ...
China banks suspend controversial yuan remittance scheme
July 15th, 2014
Major Chinese banks have temporarily suspended a yuan remittance service after a state broadcaster accused the country’s fourth biggest lender Bank of China (BOC) of allowing wealthy Chinese to launder money offshore through the scheme, the Wall Street Journal ...
Asian shares firm, count on Fed’s support
July 15th, 2014
Asian shares rose on Tuesday after Citigroup’s earnings and a fresh round of merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. healthcare industry lifted global share prices. Yet, with elevated stock prices on Wall Street and elsewhere relying substantially on ...
Whiting To Buy Kodiak For $3.8 Billion, Create No. 1 Bakken Producer
July 14th, 2014
Whiting Petroleum Corp. said on Sunday it would acquire Kodiak Oil & Gas Corp. for $3.8 billion in stock, to become the largest producer in North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil formations, eclipsing Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources Inc. . By ...
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 ...
Dark pool scrutiny no slam dunk for traditional exchanges
July 14th, 2014
The regulatory noose is tightening around dark pools, private share-trading venues that promise anonymity for specialist investors, offering a chance for rival exchanges in the United States and Europe to take back market share. But traditional stock-exchange operators such ...
Shares of tiny Facebook rival wannabe halted
July 11th, 2014
A little known company that’s turned into a strange sensation on Wall Street saw its shares get halted Friday. Cynk Technology, a company that claims to be building “social network business” that trades on the lightly supervised Pink Sheet ...
Co-heads of ICAP’s EBS Market FX trading platform leave
July 11th, 2014
ICAP, the world’s largest brokerage, said on Thursday that the co-heads of its flagship electronic foreign exchange trading platform, EBS Market, had left the firm amid a management shake-up at the broader business. Darryl Hooker, who has been head ...
