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Wall St. drops in late selloff
October 14th, 2014
The S&P 500 dropped more than 1 percent and posted its worst three-day slide since November 2011 on Monday following worries that global economic weakness will dampen U.S. earnings, along with concern about the spread of Ebola. After trading ...
Five reasons oil prices are dropping
October 14th, 2014
As oil prices continue to fall, analysts and producers are trying to wrap their heads around the reasons and identify a floor price. Even though crude benchmarks like Brent and WTI keep dropping, the cost of finding oil continues ...
New Chinese coal import tax causes disaster for Australian miners
October 14th, 2014
China’s bombshell decision to impose tariffs on coal imports could prove to be the tipping point for Australian miners already struggling to stay afloat. The move by the economic powerhouse to introduce the new duty of between 3% and ...
Ruble Risks Betrayal at Home in Nation’s Rush for Dollars
October 13th, 2014
More Russians are beginning to keep their cash in dollars and euros as the ruble tumbles to records amid central bank efforts to maintain control over the pace of the decline. The number of people with foreign-currency holdings rose ...
Canadian Pacific Makes Deal offer to CSX
October 13th, 2014
The CSX has been cool to the idea of a transaction, which would create a company worth more than $60 billion, people briefed on the matter said. If completed, a deal would unite two of the biggest railroad operators at ...
Gas Natural of Spain offers to buy Utility in Chile
October 13th, 2014
The company said in a regulatory filing that it was offering $7.93 a share, or $3.3 billion. As part of the offer, it said that shareholders that control 54.19 percent of the company had already agreed to sell their ...
Dow plunges nearly 300 points on host of fears
October 10th, 2014
The Dow, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq are all tanking big-time. Renewed worries about global economic growth, corporate earnings and market valuations propelled U.S. stocks to huge losses Thursday. The Dow Jones industrial average sank 335 points (2%) to ...
SFO in court for Alstom bribery case
October 9th, 2014
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has enlisted Three Raymond Buildings’ Simon Farrell QC and Rachel Scott for its court case against French train giant Alstom, which it accused of paying around $8m (£5m) in bribes to officials over a ...
Sanctions force another company out of Russia’s oil boom
October 9th, 2014
Western sanctions against Russia have led Royal Dutch Shell to discontinue its work with Gazprom Neft extracting shale oil from a field in Siberia. In announcing Shell’s suspension on its website, Gazprom Neft, part of the Kremlin-run gas monopoly ...
Where Next? A peek through the Macro Lens
October 9th, 2014
Financial markets have been on a heady ride since the financial crisis began in 2008. It looks like we are now at a very critical juncture which will define how things play out over the next 18-24 months. There ...
