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Flight 370: When facts are few, imaginations run wild
March 24th, 2014
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a Boeing 777 on the way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, simply vanished from the sky on March 8. In the two weeks since, the mystery of what happened to its 227 passengers and 12 ...
Candy Crush mania coming to Wall Street
March 24th, 2014
Investors are hungry for initial public offerings, and there’s something sweet in the pipeline. King Digital Entertainment, which makes the popular Candy Crush Saga online game, is one of 14 companies set to go public this week. The U.K. ...
Avoid Those Rose-Colored Dividends
March 21st, 2014
Don’t let investor communication objectives stand in the way of making sound dividend policy decisions during a downturn. Although there are numerous dividend-related metrics, including dividend yield and dividend-payout ratio, any thorough discussion of dividend policy should focus heavily ...
Next’s profits set to overtake Marks & Spencer after 12% annual rise
March 21st, 2014
The decline of Marks & Spencer was again brutally underlined on Thursday when Next reported soaring profits that are almost certain to have beaten its venerable high street rival for the first time. After bets on “braver” fashion and ...
Turkey blocks use of Twitter after prime minister attacks social media site
March 21st, 2014
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens to ‘root out’ social media network where wiretapped recordings have been leaked Turkey restricted access to Twitter hours after its prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, threatened to “root out” the social media network where wiretapped ...
Mt.Gox finds 200,000 bitcoins in old wallet
March 21st, 2014
Embattled exchange Mt.Gox said Friday that it has found 200,000 bitcoins in a “forgotten” digital wallet — a haul worth $116 million at current prices. Mt.Gox CEO Mark Karpeles said in a statement that the bitcoins had been uncovered ...
Pimco Replaced by TCW as Manager of $1.3 Billion Strategy
March 21st, 2014
Bill Gross’s Pacific Investment Management Co., which suffered record redemptions from its main mutual fund last year, was dropped as manager of a $1.3 billion bond fund offered by Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC. Columbia replaced Pimco with TCW ...
Lease Accounting Standard Inches Forward
March 20th, 2014
Despite disagreements about how to report leases, standard setters held firm Wednesday on putting all of them on the balance sheet. Rather than going back to the future, the Financial Accounting Standards Board apparently moved closer to the completion ...
Dubai Banking Analysts Seen Earning Double Bonus of London Peers
March 20th, 2014
Junior bankers in the United Arab Emirates are reaping almost 36 percent more salary than their counterparts in London, with bonuses almost double those paid in the U.K. capital, compensation data provider Emolument said. Fixed salaries at the analyst ...
Credit Agricole Targets Profit Above $5.5 Billion by 2016
March 20th, 2014
Credit Agricole SA, France’s third-largest bank, will seek to reach at least 4 billion euros ($5.5 billion) of annual net income by 2016 and build up capital as its main European markets emerge from recession. “We’ve deeply transformed our ...
