Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range The New York Times | Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are taking a breather after major indexes rose the past few weeks. | Stocks have surged over the last year...
The Toyota myth is shattered The Daily Tribune | ZOOMING IN | 03/10/2010 | With the quickening pace of technological advance and the globalization-induced intensification of international competitiveness during the 20th Century’s second half and the 21st Century’s first decade, the creation of business myths has been attended by much difficulty....
Plenty of suitors but few proposals: Resolution falls out of FTSE 100 The Times | Clive Cowdery's Resolution, which promised to deliver private equity-like returns for investors by buying and merging inefficient insurers, was relegated from the FTSE 100 index of leading shares last night. | Mr Cowdery, who made a £145 million pe...
Lebanon has 11th widest spread in emerging markets on Credit Default Swaps Daily Star Lebanon | By The Daily Star | Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | - Powered by | BEIRUT: The spread on five-year Credit Default Swaps (CDS) for Lebanon reached 257 basis points at the end of February, compared to spreads of 270 bps for emerging markets and to 234 bp...
Need to know: BP investment ... Inmarsat earnings ... Eurotunnel results ... The Times | View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap | Economics | Trade deficit: Official figures showed that the trade gap in goods widened by nearly £1 billion to £7.987 billion in January, after exports dropped by nearly 7 per cent, the biggest fall...
Law firms prepare to float on the stock market The Times | City law firms are preparing to raise millions of pounds from external investors as the British legal market braces for its own version of Big Bang. | At least 20 firms are planning to raise outside funding under rules that will allow non-lawyers t...
Wall Street Shares Move Within a Narrow Range The New York Times | Shares traded within a tight range Tuesday, a year after major market indexes hit 12-year lows. | With little in the way of economic reports or earnings to help drive shares higher, investors are taking a breather after major indexes rose the past ...
The Toyota myth is shattered The Daily Tribune | ZOOMING IN | 03/10/2010 | With the quickening pace of technological advance and the globalization-induced intensification of international competitiveness during the 20th Century’s second half and the 21st Century’s first decade, the creation of bu...
South Korea back on track Asia Times | By Robert M Cutler | MONTREAL - The South Korean economy, which last year scraped through the global slowdown without sinking into recession, returned to the recovery path last month after faltering in January, Finance Minister Yoon Jeung-hyun said...
Biden to try to boost Middle East peace prospects The News International Monday, March 08, 2010 | WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama dispatches his vice president to the Middle East on Sunday to try to build support for reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks despite deep scepticism on both sides. | Iran is also a top issue for Israelis, many of whom see Obama's focus on diplomacy and targeted sanctions to curb Tehr...
