Stock markets - world

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

Nikkei closes above 20,000 for first time in 15 years

23 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

Citigroup reports highest quarterly profit since financial crisis

17 Apr 2015

Intel's Q1 earnings rise despite slow PC market

16 Apr 2015

Music site Spotify to seek funding to attain $8.4 bn valuation: report

13 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 sells entire stake in Thailand's Siam City Cement for $681 mn

30 Mar 2015

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

Australian regulator to review Fortescue’s output cap call

25 Mar 2015

Brent crude rebounds to $57 a barrel on weak dollar

24 Mar 2015

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

Chipmaker Qualcomm to buy back $15 bn of shares

10 Mar 2015

Dow Jones’ latest 30

07 Mar 2015

Apple ousts AT&T to make Dow Jones’ 30-firm index

07 Mar 2015

The addition of Apple Inc, the world’s most valuable firm, on the venerable Dow is a reflection of the changing times – but it is largely symbolic, as big investors today track the S&P 500 rather than the Dow

Morgan Stanley reaches $2.6-bn settlement with US govt over mortgages

26 Feb 2015

The settlement will cut the bank’s 2014 profit by almost a half as legal reserves will be increased to $2.8 billion, reducing its income from continuing operations by $2.7 billion

Rolls-Royce sees first reverses in 10 years as sales fall 6% to £14.59 bn

16 Feb 2015

Apple still undervalued; could rise to $1 trillion: Carl Icahn

12 Feb 2015

Apple becomes first US firm to cross $700 bn in market value

12 Feb 2015

The iPhone maker is now worth twice as much as its long-time rival Microsoft and almost double of its closest rival Exxon Corp – and its shares are still rising