Reuters: Stocks & Shares News
07/04/2008 09:03 AM
What the BoE has to weigh up next week
LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England looks set to hold interest rates steady for the third month running next week as policymakers seem trapped between high inflation on one side and sharply slowing growth on the other.
07/04/2008 03:10 AM
Bad news "priced" in battered global equities
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global equities are cheap by historical standards and especially compared with other assets after the drubbing in the first half, Citigroup's equity strategists said in a note.
07/04/2008 03:45 AM
Rounder world threatens Asia economies
LONDON (Reuters) - The "flat" globalized world is getting a bit rounder, as high energy prices increase the costs of transportation and undermine Asia's economic miracle.
07/04/2008 02:36 AM
Round-up from Thursday's business pages
LONDON (Reuters) - Here is a digest of Friday's business pages.
07/03/2008 11:30 AM
Fortis and RBS need to deliver on ABN promises
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - Nine months after taking control of Dutch bank ABN AMRO, two of the three victors are suffering a bad bout of winner's curse and need to deliver on big promises to investors.
07/03/2008 11:43 AM
London draws emerging miners, Toronto wins juniors
LONDON/TORONTO (Reuters) - London's deep capital markets, tolerance of political risk and friendlier regulation is trumping other bourses in attracting major listings of miners although Toronto is still tops for junior and exploration firms.
07/03/2008 10:52 AM
TUI Travel and Thomas Cook can weather downturn
LONDON (Reuters) - The mergers which created Europe's two biggest travel firms, TUI Travel Plc and Thomas Cook Group Plc , have given both groups the flexibility to cope with the consumer downturn.
07/03/2008 11:27 AM
U.S. auto stocks and bonds plunge - but are they cheap?
NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp shares are at their lowest level since 1954 and its benchmark bonds yield 15 percent compared with the 10-year Treasury's 4 percent yield, but it's not necessarily cheap, investors say.
07/03/2008 04:14 AM
Investors cut equities and head for safety in June
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors have cut back their holdings in stocks to the lowest level in at least four years, Reuters polls showed this week -- a sharp reaction to the threats of rising inflation and slowing economies.
07/03/2008 11:28 AM
Activist investors face long haul in Japan
TOKYO (Reuters) - Activist investors in Japan scored few wins during this year's annual meeting season, and with companies erecting defences against them, their biggest impact has been to make governance a hot discussion topic.
