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Alibaba Plans IPO for After Labor Day
July 18th, 2014
Investors will have to wait a little longer for a chance to buy into the year’s most-anticipated initial public offering. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. on Thursday decided to push back its IPO—which could raise more than $20 billion—until after ...
AbbVie-Shire Deal Is Expected, in a Flight to a Lower-Tax Locale
July 18th, 2014
The biggest deal of the year is set to be announced on Friday morning, as the pharmaceutical giant AbbVie plans to announce a $53 billion acquisition of Shire, according to people briefed on the matter. The deal will allow ...
Fedex faces criminal charges over online pharmacies
July 18th, 2014
FedEx Corp was indicted on Thursday for shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite repeated warnings from U.S. drug enforcement officials, according to a court filing. The 15-count indictment, handed down by a federal grand jury in San Francisco, ...
U.S. housing starts, permits decline in June
July 17th, 2014
U.S. housing starts and building permits unexpectedly fell in June, suggesting the housing market recovery was struggling to get back on track after stalling in late 2013. Groundbreaking declined 9.3 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual 893,000 million unit-pace, the ...
Profit Surges at Morgan Stanley
July 17th, 2014
Morgan Stanley said on Thursday that its second-quarter earnings surged, driven largely by growth in the firm’s wealth management operations and by strong performances in investment banking and equity sales. Excluding certain charges relating to its debt and a ...
Microsoft to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
July 17th, 2014
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it would eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as part of a major restructuring. Previously, the largest layoffs at the company were in 2009, when about 5,800 people were affected amid ...
Implementing the new European accounting directive
July 17th, 2014
In implementing the New European Accounting Directive, the Member States have choices which give them the chance to improve accounting in their country and those choices should be more evidence-based. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable facilitated ...
Gold Steady Ahead of Key US Numbers
July 17th, 2014
Gold is trading just shy of the key $1300 level on Thursday. In the European session, the spot price stands at $1299.07 per ounce. On the release front, it’s a busy day with three key events, Building Permits, Unemployment ...
New sanctions cause Russian shares and rouble to tumble
July 17th, 2014
The United States imposed its toughest sanctions yet on Moscow on Wednesday, and Russian stocks and the rouble tumbled on Thursday. Safe-haven assets such as gold, yen and German bonds rose. The rouble-traded MICEX stock market dropped 2.5 percent ...
Tories ‘to challenge European court with British bill of rights’
July 17th, 2014
David Cameron is heading for a major showdown over Europe with a plan to assert the supremacy of parliament over the European court of human rights to avoid a repeat of the rows over the deportation of foreign criminals, ...
