Stock markets - world

Pound plunges to a 31-year low as voting begins to replace PM Cameron

05 Jul 2016

Standard Life Investments suspends trading of UK real estate fund after Brexit

05 Jul 2016

India to be key driver in global green bonds market

05 Jul 2016

Bond buyers are eager to capitalise on climate-related initiatives, and an increase in sales from Indian issuers could also help spur the dollar-bond market as a whole, says Bloomberg

Brexit: turmoil in Asian markets; Britons petition for fresh vote

27 Jun 2016

As China, Japan and South Korea moved to prevent currency and stock markets from going haywire, over three million Britons and counting signed a petition demanding a fresh referendum on exit from the EU

Winklevoss twins to open Gemini Bitcoin Exchange in London

22 Jun 2016

MSCI inclusion ‘only a matter of time’, feels China

15 Jun 2016

MSCI holds off including China stocks in index

15 Jun 2016

Markets should take Brexit more seriously: BlackRock

10 Jun 2016

Jaguar Land Rover posts highest-ever sales figures

04 Jun 2016

Zuckerberg could lose control of Facebook if he quits

03 Jun 2016

The rules, which were first proposed as part of a reclassification of Facebook’s shares to help meet Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy plans, will be voted on by shareholders at an annual meeting on 20 June

Tesla to offer $1.7 bn in new stock to fund Model 3

19 May 2016

London Stock Exchange to vote on Deutsche Boerse merger after EU referendum

18 May 2016

Philips lighting to launch IPO

17 May 2016

Warren Buffett reveals more than $1 bn stake in Apple

17 May 2016

Apple’s stock, which has lost about a third of its value over the past year, rose by 4 per cent yesterday after Berkshire Hathaway revealed the stake

Amazon chief, Jeff Bezos sells 1% stake in Amazon for $671 mn

07 May 2016

CME Group to start publishing bitcoin market prices in real time

03 May 2016

AstraZeneca, Reckitt Benckiser face investor ire over fat executive pay

02 May 2016

Reckitt Benckiser was fined the equivalent of £885,000 in Australia for misleading consumers after a court ruled that pills that claimed to target ailments such as migraine or back pain were identical

Apple's little wonder iPhone fails to enthuse customers

27 Apr 2016

Apple announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 second quarter ended 26 March 2016, reporting its first-ever decline in iPhone sales and its first revenue drop in 13 years

BP reports $532-mn Q1 profit despite low oil prices

26 Apr 2016

Toshiba takes $2.3-bn hit from Westinghouse write-down

26 Apr 2016

Phillips prepares IPO for lighting division

25 Apr 2016

Google's parent Alphabet’s Q1 profit fails to impress at $4.21 billion

23 Apr 2016

Google's holding company Alphabet said the costs of traffic acquisition, or what it pays to other web sites for ad space totaled $3.8 billion and accounted for 21 per cent of advertising revenues during the quarter