 Lehman Brothers auditors were negilgent says reportAuditors, former executives, Barclays Bank, and Wall Street banks have copped a serve from a court-appointer examiner who probed the Lehman Brothers... | |
 U.S. stocks recover in late tradingA surge in bank shares returned the major indices to the black Thursday, after rough sailing earlier in the... |
| Stocks Rise After Upbeat Retail Sales Data NEW YORK - Stocks extended their gains Friday after retail sales unexpectedly rose in February, raising hopes that the economy may be gaining... |
| Retail Sales Rise Unexpectedly In February Shoppers exit a Target store with their purchases in Fairfax, Virginia, February 4, 2010. Sales at U.S. retailers rose unexpectedly in February despite a drop in vehicle purchases and inclement... |
| Market Snapshot: U.s. Stocks Rise On Retail Sales Jump NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stocks opened higher on Friday, as investors were cheered by an unexpected jump in U.S. retail sales last month and a crowd-pleasing nomination for the Fed's vice... |
| Movers & Shakers: Friday's Biggest Advancers And Decliners NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trading in Friday's session are Pacific Sunwear of California Inc., Aeropostale Inc. and AnnTaylor Stores Corp. ... |
| Metals Stocks: Gold Gains As Dollar Drops, Oil Rises NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Gold futures rose early on Friday, but remained on track for a 2.4% drop for the week, helped by a weaker dollar and a jump in crude oil prices after the International... |
| Earnings Watch: Updates, Advisories And Surprises -1.18% ) on Friday reaffirmed its expectations for 2010 earnings per share in the range of $4.40 to $4.65 and sees revenues of $54 billion to $55 billion for the period. FactSet analyst's on... |
| Bond Report: Treasurys Decline After Strong Retail-sales Data NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices declined on Friday, pushing short-term yields to a two-month high, after a report showed U.S. retail sales unexpectedly rose last month by... |
| Before The Bell: Yuan, British Airways, Repo 105 In Focus Led by a big gain in electronics, U.S. retail sales increased a seasonally adjusted 0.3% in February, despite three major snow storms in the East, the Commerce Department estimated Friday. ... |
| Spanish, Italian Companies Pounce On ‘naked Demand’ For Bonds March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Portuguese, Italian and Spanish companies are rushing to sell bonds, taking advantage of investors’ demand for corporate debt after Greece’s budget crisis froze... |
| Investors Have Turned Net Buyers Of Greek Bonds, Citigroup Says March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Investors have been net buyers for the past three weeks of bonds issued by Greece and other so- called peripheral European nations with widening deficits, including Spain,... |
| New Wave Of Foreclosures Threatens Market While banks repossessed fewer homes in February than a month earlier, borrowers continued to fall behind on their payments, adding to the inventory of properties headed toward foreclosure that have... |
| Policy ‘dove’ May Be Tapped For Fed Vice Chair WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama plans to nominate San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank President Janet Yellen, a respected policy dove, to be vice chairman of the central bank, a source familiar... |
| Turkey Sells $1 Bln Of Bonds At Lowest Cost Turkey sold $1 billion of 11-year dollar bonds at the lowest yield on record after the government decided it did not need help from the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, to meet the... |
| Dominican Republic Congress Approves Us$1.0b In Bonds Santo Domingo.- The deputies yesterday approved the placement of US$1.0 billion in bonds in the international money markets, an initiative passed with the majority vote of the ruling PLD party and... |
| Eu Ministers Said To Discuss Eu Bonds To Fund Any Greek Rescue March 12 (Bloomberg) -- European Union finance ministers will discuss next week whether any Greek bailout should be funded by issuing EU bonds guaranteed by euro region governments, said three people... |
| Junk Bonds Pull Ahead As Txu, Freescale Soar: Credit Markets March 12 (Bloomberg) -- High-yield, high-risk bonds are beating investment-grade debt for the first time this year as confidence in the U.S. economic recovery gains... |
| Cyanotech Receives Temporary Non-compliance Notice From Nasdaq Related To Its Number Of Independent Directors KAILUA KONA, Hawaii - (Business Wire) Cyanotech Corporation (Nasdaq Capital Market: CYAN) has been notified by the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel that it is not in compliance with its continued... |
| <font Color="#996633" Face="times New Roman,times,times Newroman">currencies: Dollar Slips As Traders Await Retail Data</font> The U.S. dollar fell versus major rivals Friday, with the euro breaking through important chart resistance after a stronger-than-expected rise in industrial... |
| Indications: U.s. Stock Futures Point Higher Before Retail Data LONDON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. stock futures Friday pointed to an extension of the week's advance ahead of economic reports on retail sales and consumer confidence. S&P 500 futures rose 2.6... |
| Futures Movers: Crude Futures Gain As Iea Raises Demand Forecasts FRANKFRUT (MarketWatch) -- Crude futures rose above $82 a barrel on Friday, as the International Energy Agency raised its forecast for global oil demand, citing strong growth in China and other... |
| Ubs Urges Parliment To Pass Us-swiss Deal By Katharina Bart Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES ZURICH -(Dow Jones)- UBS AG (UBS) has stepped up its lobbying efforts for a U.S.-Swiss tax deal over confidential bank data, urging parliamentary... |
| Nokia Seeks Patent For Kinetic Battery Charger STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finland's Nokia Corp. (NOK), the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, has filed a U.S. patent application for a gadget that uses body movement to charge the battery in... |
| Video Game Sales Fall Again In February Video-game sales declined again in February, as some of the month's new releases performed relatively weakly. Sales of game software declined by 15% for the month to $624.4 million compared to the... |
| Summers Says Us Is Very Close To Job Growth HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. economy is moving towards job creation as it sails out of the recession, White House economic advisor Lawrence Summers said... |
| Currencies: Dollar Rises Vs. Yen On Hatoyama Comments TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- The dollar slipped against most rivals but gained against its Japanese counterpart in Asian trading Friday, after Japan's leader had some harsh words against yen strength and a... |
| Glance-europe Factors-shares Set To Track Wall St, Asia Gains LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - European shares were set to rise on Friday, reversing the previous session's dip and tracking gains on Wall Street and in Tokyo, with banking shares in focus after U.S.... |
| <font Color="#996633" Face="times New Roman,times,times Newroman">currencies: Dollar Rises Vs. Yen On Hatoyama Comments</font> The dollar slipped against most rivals but gained against its Japanese counterpart in Asian trading Friday, after Japan's leader had some harsh words against yen strength and a report suggested the... |
| Bright Led To Issue Nt$1.9 Billion In Bonds; Delta To Take Nt$720 Million The board of directors of LED packaging house Bright LED Electronics has decided to issue convertible bonds worth NT$1.9 billion (US$59.79 million), of which Delta's board of directors has decided to... |
| China Bonds May Return 6% On Banks’ Buying, Fund Says March 12 (Bloomberg) -- China’s yuan bonds will return as much as 6 percent this year as a crackdown on lending forces banks to “park” money in fixed-income assets, the... |
| <font Color="#996633" Face="times New Roman,times,times Newroman">currencies: Dollar Falls Vs. Euro As Greece Passes Budget</font> The dollar fell against the euro Friday after Greece's parliament approved a package of budget cuts to help reduce its deficit, reinforcing perceptions that the nation might be able to sidestep... |
| Federal Reserve: Net Worth Gains 1.3 Percent In Fourth Quarter WASHINGTON | Americans regained more of their shrunken wealth last quarter, mainly because the healing economy boosted stock portfolios. But the gain was less than in the previous two... |
| Now Is A Good Time To Buy Stocks LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Historically, on average there have been two particularly auspicious times to buy stock each year. Right now is one of those times. We are very bullish on shares,... |
| Boutique Boom Fading As Wall St Banks Expand The window of opportunity is closing for boutique bond trading firms to make a killing from market turmoil as big Wall Street banks regain their footing and rehire... |
| Yuan Forwards Rise For Sixth Day On Inflation, Bonds Unchanged BEIJING -- Yuan forwards rose for a sixth day after a pickup in inflation fanned speculation the central bank will let the currency appreciate to cut import costs. Bonds were little... |
| Us Markets End In The Green The US markets ended in the green. The Dow closed at 10611, stronger by 44 points or 0.4%, Nasdaq ended at 2368, higher by nine points or 0.4% and S&P shut at 1150, up four points or... |
| Japanese Stocks Rise To Seven-week High After Wall Street Gains Tokyo - Stocks in Tokyo climbed in Friday morning trading to a seven-week high after overnight gains on Wall Street. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average added 43.52 points, or 0.41 per cent, to... |
| North Korea Bonds Due Today Spur Exotix Bet On Political Change March 12 (Bloomberg) -- North Korean bank loans, in default since the 1970s, present an opportunity for investors willing to speculate the communist country will seek to end its political isolation... |
| Tokyo Stocks Open Higher On Monetary Easing Hopes, Wall Street Rise+ TOKYO, March 12 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday on continued hopes for possible monetary easing as well as optimism over overnight gains on Wall Street. In the first 15... |
| Parafin Issuance Of Preferred Shares Paid For With Bearer Bonds In response to multiple inquiries from shareholders and potential shareholders, ParaFin Corporation felt compelled to put out a statement on the company's Bearer Bond holdings. On January 27, 2010,... |
| Stocks To Watch: Stocks In Focus For Friday Russian ETF landscape State Street launches ETF tracking Russian stocks, going up against Van Eck’s Market Vectors Russia ETF, writes MarketWatch's John... |
| Us Stocks Rally 0.4 Per Cent, Buoyed By Citigroup New York - US stocks rose at least 0.4 per cent Thursday, after increases on the two previous days, buoyed by the bailed-out Citigroup's optimistic outlook. Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit... |
| European Stocks To Watch: U.k. Outperforms Continent As Both Currencies Fall LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Both the British pound and the euro have taken a battering this year as traders fret about levels of national debt. One big difference, however, has emerged: U.K. stocks have... |
