Stock markets - world
Samsung posts first profit decline in two years
24 Jan 2014
Microsoft posts better-than-expected results for fiscal 2Q
24 Jan 2014
The software giant’s quarterly profit was boosted by strong sales of its software and services for businesses
Carl Icahn raises stake in Apple to $3 bn
23 Jan 2014
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has increased his stake in US technology giant Apple Inc by $500 million to $3 billion pressurising the company to return more wealth to its shareholders
Unilever full-year turnover falls
21 Jan 2014
Hedge funds manipulate stock prices: research
17 Jan 2014
Some hedge funds manipulate stock prices at the end of the month to improve the returns that they report to their investors, suggest a new study by Itzhak Ben-David, an author of the study and assistant professor of finance at Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business
Bank of America’s profits rise five-fold
16 Jan 2014
Bank of America , the second-largest US lender, posted net income of $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter, up from $732 million a year earlier
US approves SGX as Asia’s first derivatives clearing house
31 Dec 2013
SGX offers its clients the world's biggest offshore market for Asian equity index futures, centred on Asia's three largest economies - China, India and Japan
Facebook and banks to face lawsuit over IPO
20 Dec 2013
Social networking site Facebook and dozens of banks must face a lawsuit for misleading investors at the time of its IPO, a US judge has ruled
Hilton serves up a surprise in market debut
14 Dec 2013
Hilton IPO raises $2.34 bn
12 Dec 2013
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc, the luxury hotels chain bought by private equity firm Blackstone Group LP in 2007, yesterday raised $2.34 billion in its initial public offering, making it the biggest floatation by a hotel company
Hilton Worldwide to raise $2.4 bn in biggest hotels IPO
03 Dec 2013
The luxury chain's public offering is the biggest floatation by a hotel company