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LyondellBasell scrip added to S&P 500 Index
05 Sep 2012
Amcor posts record full-year underlying profit
22 Aug 2012
Apple sets all-time Wall Street record
21 Aug 2012
Apple Inc has become Wall Street’s all-time most valuable company after its market value touched a little over $623 billion yesterday, surpassing Microsoft Corp’s all time high of $616.3 billion during the computer stocks boom in 1999
Facebook shares rise 2.3 % after falling to half of IPO price
21 Aug 2012
Times had been tough from the start for Facebook after its initial public offering on 18 May when technical glitches hit the Nasdaq exchange causing delays in confirming trades
Netflix CEO buys $1 million worth of Facebook shares
13 Aug 2012
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is the only Facebook insider to have disclosed buying stock since the company's May initial public offering
Manchester United raises $233 mn in New York IPO
10 Aug 2012
Rio Tinto first half profit down 22 per cent
09 Aug 2012
Japan Airlines plans $8.5-bn IPO
06 Aug 2012
JAL, which emerged from bankruptcy protection in 2011, has planned the the world's second-largest IPO this year after Facebook's $16-billion flotation in May
Facebook shares down to new lows
04 Aug 2012
Facebook reports $157 million Q2 loss
27 Jul 2012
Facebook has not yet been able to work out how to make money from people using the site on mobile device
Telenor reports $1.31 billion gross profit in Q2
24 Jul 2012
Microsoft reports first quarterly loss after 1986
20 Jul 2012
Software giant Microsoft reported its first quarterly loss after it went public in 1986, mainly from its failing online ad service aQuantive, which could not compete with rival Google Inc.
London, Singapore stock exchanges sign trading pact
12 Jul 2012
The London and Singapore stock exchanges plan to permit cross-trading of their largest and most actively traded stocks
Manchester United plans New York IPO
05 Jul 2012
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