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Deutsche Bank Profit Beats Estimates on Trading Revenue
April 29th, 2014
Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Europe’s largest investment bank by revenue, said first-quarter profit declined less than expected as trading revenue exceeded analysts’ estimates. Net income dropped 34 percent to 1.08 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in the three months through ...
GE Battles for Alstom as Siemens Wins French Support
April 28th, 2014
Jeffrey Immelt is trying to defend General Electric Co. (GE)’s largest-ever acquisition, after French officials imperiled the attempt by urging Alstom SA (ALO) to consider a rival offer from Germany’s Siemens AG. (SIE) The chief executive officer of GE ...
Insolvencies rocket amid mounting misery for firms
April 24th, 2014
SCOTTISH corporate insolvencies in the latest full quarter were up 70.6% on the same period of last year, official figures have revealed, and one leading expert predicted the number of failures could climb higher still. The figures, published yesterday ...
Is the U.S. Shale Boom Going Bust?
April 23rd, 2014
It’s not surprising that a survey of energy professionals attending the 2014 North American Prospect Expo overwhelmingly identified “U.S. energy independence” as the trend most likely to gain momentum this year. Like any number of politicians and pundits, these ...
How about… A Global Tax on the Superrich?
April 14th, 2014
Bill Gates washes his own dishes, as we learned this year from his Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but he’s certainly not trying to save money. The world’s richest person is doing everything in his power to decrease ...
Ukraine Mounts Security Push as Russia Warns on Civil War
April 9th, 2014
Ukrainian authorities sent security forces to Kharkiv to clear the country’s second-biggest city of separatists as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry accused Russia of using “special forces and agents” to spark unrest. An “anti-terrorist operation” was under way ...
Stock experts say the bull isn’t dead yet
April 7th, 2014
Wall Street professionals are still optimistic about stocks, despite a very volatile start for the markets this year. The 26 investment strategists surveyed in the past week by CNNMoney have an average year-end target for the S&P 500 of ...
Vivendi Selling SFR to Altice in $23 Billion Deal, Hard-Fought Win for Drahi
April 7th, 2014
Billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice (ATC) SA won the bidding contest for Vivendi SA (VIV)’s French phone unit, beating a government-backed offer from Bouygues SA (EN) by agreeing to a deal valued at more than 17 billion euros ($23 billion). ...
An Old Formula May Overstate U.S. Oil Supplies
April 4th, 2014
Jan Arps is the most influential oilman you’ve never heard of. In 1945, Arps, then a 33-year-old petroleum engineer for British-American Oil Producing Co., published a formula to predict how much crude a well will produce and when it ...
Ukraine crisis: NATO suspends cooperation with Moscow
April 2nd, 2014
NATO will suspend “all practical civilian and military cooperation” with Russia because of its annexation of Crimea, saying it has seen no sign that Moscow was withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border. Foreign ministers from the 28 members of ...