Stock markets - world

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

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

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

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

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

02 Aug 2019

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

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

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

26 Apr 2019

26 Apr 2019

Boosted by cloud business that grew at around 75 per cent and the more than expected earnings growth Microsoft also emerged a trillion dollar company, beating rival Amazon to the third place

09 Apr 2019

While reports say the bond issue is intended to raise cash for Aramco’s $69.1 billion acquisition of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, the Saudi oil giant with core earnings of $224 billion last year and $86 billion in free cash flow at the end of 2018, does not need to borrow

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28 Sep 2018

In its lawsuit, the US regulator said Musk calculated the $420 price per share, at a 20 per cent premium over that day’s closing share price and that the number’s slang reference to marijuana and hints in emails and text messages pointed that it was only intended to impress his girlfriend

31 Aug 2018