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Philips Shares Rally on Earnings
January 26th, 2016
Dutch electronics firm says its operational performance continued to improve Shares in Royal Philips NV rallied Tuesday after the Dutch electronics company reported earnings that beat market expectations, giving investors some comfort ahead of the planned sale of its ...
Wells Fargo Surpasses Citigroup
January 18th, 2016
Wells Fargo sees 6% growth in assets; Citigroup posts strong annual profit Starting the new year, most big banks are touting their regimens to slim down: Wells Fargo & Co. just keeps growing. The San Francisco-based bank surpassed Citigroup Inc. to become the ...
J.P. Morgan Fires KCG Holdings as Its NYSE Market Maker
January 7th, 2016
Virtu Financial appointed as J.P. Morgan’s new NYSE market maker J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. has replaced its market maker on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Virtu Financial Inc., according to a trader notice sent ...
Southeast Asia Launches Huge Trade Bloc
December 30th, 2015
Ten countries formalize their integration efforts in a bid to rebalance regional power and riches Ten Southeast Asian nations start an ambitious, U.S.-backed experiment on Thursday: integrating their economies in a bid to bring more global sway and prosperity ...
Oil Slump Forces Deep Cuts by Service Providers
November 6th, 2015
Oil-field service companies feel the pinch as producers pull back Oil-field service companies are slashing costs amid an industry-rattling fall in crude prices, and no cut is too small—such as using white paint instead of yellow on underwater equipment. ...
WTO members seal trillion-dollar IT trade deal
July 24th, 2015
World Trade Organization (WTO) members finalized a deal on Friday to cut tariffs on $1 trillion worth of information technology products in a boost for producers of goods ranging from video games to medical equipment. The agreement to update ...
JPMorgan $12.5 Billion Short in Fed Systemic-Risk Charges
July 21st, 2015
JPMorgan Chase & Co. still has a shortfall of as much as $12.5 billion in meeting capital rules approved by the Federal Reserve on Monday. The Fed assigned capital charges totaling more than $200 billion for eight of the ...
Wall Street falls ahead of first-quarter earnings
April 14th, 2015
Wall Street edged lower on Monday after two consecutive weeks of gains as fears increased that the strong dollar and lower oil prices will hurt US first-quarter earnings. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 81 points, or 0.45%, to ...
Alstom Gets Break on Fine
February 2nd, 2015
Court Granted Delay in $772 Million Payment Because of Possible Business Impact When the U.S. Justice Department announced a record $772 million foreign-bribery settlement with Alstom SA in December, there was a hitch: The French engineering company couldn’t pay ...
Fed issues rule to prevent oversized U.S. financial firms
November 6th, 2014
The U.S. Federal Reserve unveiled a final rule on Wednesday designed to prevent large financial firms from becoming so big that their failure could shake the core of the U.S. financial market. The final rule, required by the 2010 ...