Stock markets - world
BT posts strong rise in profits
07 May 2015
Tesla beats expectations with Q1 revenue of $1 bn
07 May 2015
Once expected to flop, independant electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors has pulled off surprising first quarter results
Sony sees $2.70-bn operating profit this fiscal after $1.06-bn FY15 net loss
30 Apr 2015
After six years of net losses, Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony Corp said it expected operating profit to more than quadruple this fiscal year
Google Q1 net up 3.88% at $3.59 bn; revenue rises 12% to $17.26 bn
25 Apr 2015
Google said its consolidated revenue rose 12 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015 to $17.258 billion, compared with $15.420 in the January-March 2014 quarter
GM posts lower first quarter revenues
24 Apr 2015
Tesco expected to announce record annual loss
20 Apr 2015
Apple expected to hit $1-trillion market cap in a year
20 Apr 2015
Apple will emerge the world's most valuable company with a market cap of $1 trillion in a year, says a US investment bank
A spilt can of Coke causes computer blackout across global markets
18 Apr 2015
Following the computer glitch just at the start of trading, more than 300,000 screens suddenly went offline for several hours, leaving brokers stuck with the terminals
Intel's Q1 earnings rise despite slow PC market
16 Apr 2015
Alcoa reports profit in first quarter
10 Apr 2015
US regulator charges Kraft, Mondelez with rigging wheat prices
04 Apr 2015
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's complaint comes less than a week after Kraft agreed to be acquired by H J Heinz in a multi-billion dollar deal
Holcim shareholders reject revised terms of merger with Lafarge
30 Mar 2015
Russian businessman Filaret Galchev, Holcim's second-largest shareholder, has rejected the revised merger terms as too low, and objected to the move to remove Lafarge boss Bruno Lafont as CEO of the combined group
GM to launch $5-bn share buyback
10 Mar 2015
ECB’s monetary expansion sinks euro below $1.08; rupee wilts
10 Mar 2015
While most major banks expected the US dollar to gain parity with the euro by next year or the latest by 2017, the launch of eurozone quantitative easing seems to have quickened the pace