Stock markets - world
ReNew Power lists on Nasdaq at a valuation of $4.5 billion
25 Aug 2021
ReNew Power, India’s largest renewable energy company, got listed on the Nasdaq in the US on Tuesday, at a valuation of $4.5 billion,
Amazon’s Q2 net income doubles to $5.2 billion
03 Aug 2020
Oil fall pummels Saudi Aramco shares to below IPO levels
09 Mar 2020
Saudi official selling prices for crude fell $8-$10.25 below Brent, registering the sharpest fall in at least 20 years even as the Opec kingpin hinted at hiking production by more than 2 million barrels per day
Alphabet reports $10.7 bn 2019 net income on revenues of $46.1 bn
04 Feb 2020
Alphabet’s investments in deep computer science, including artificial intelligence, ambient computing and cloud computing, provide a strong base for continued growth and new opportunities, says CEO Sundar Pichai
Lockheed Martin reports $1.5 bn Q4 net profit on $15.9 bn net sales
29 Jan 2020
Lokheed Martin ended 2019 with net sales of $59.8 billion, net earnings of $6.2 billion, and a record order backlog of $144.0 billion, and expects 2020 financial outlook to be even better
Charles Schwab to buy TD Ameritrade in $26-bn brokerage deal
27 Nov 2019
The combination of the two leading brokerages creating a company with $5 trillion in assets under management will squeeze the discount-led retail brokerage industry, and put smaller rivals under pressure
Microsoft announces $40 bn share buyback, hikes dividend
19 Sep 2019
Microsoft reported revenue of $125.8 billion for the financial year 2019, and a net income of $39.2 billion, setting a new record fiscal year, even as the trillion-dollar company returned $7.7 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019
Hong Kong Exchanges bids $39 bn for London Stock Exchange
11 Sep 2019
LSE CEO David Schwimmer has said that big bang takeovers in exchanges are difficult due to political concerns and LSE’s move to diversify
IMF researchers suggest an integrated capital market for Europe
11 Sep 2019
Lowering barriers to a European Capital Markets Union offers the prospect of bridging the interest rate differentials and other macroeconomic benefits, say IMF researchers
US labels China `currency manipulator’ as yuan sinks to a decade low
06 Aug 2019
Markets see the yuan’s fall as proof of China's willingness to let the yuan slide after US President Donald Trump vowed last week to impose 10 per cent tariffs on the remaining $300 billion of Chinese imports from 1 September
LSE to buy financial tech firm Refinitiv in $27 bn deal
01 Aug 2019
The deal will see the Blackstone-led consortium doubling the value of its investment in Refinitiv and the consortium of investment funds affiliated with Blackstone and Thomson Reuters ending up with about 37 per cent economic interest in LSEG and less than 30 per cent of the total voting rights of LSEG
Saudi Aramco’s 2018 net income zooms to $111.07 billion
12 Jun 2019
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest integrated oil and gas company producing one in every eight barrels of crude oil globally, said its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation for the year stood at SAR 839 billion ($224 billion) while its return on average capital employed stood at 41 per cent
Airtel Africa plans London listing to cut $16 billion debt
29 May 2019
With a debt load of more than $16 billion and falling revenue and market share at home Bharti Airtel is looking at its African business to stay put