Stock markets - world

Fake Sumitomo Mitsui Financial representatives hit New Zealand investors

16 May 2012

Posing as representatives of Japanese firm Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Corporation, scamsters have been making lucrative share offers to investors

Half of Americans polled see Facebook as a fad: report

15 May 2012

SEC halts trading in 379 shell companies

15 May 2012

Global stocks plunge over possible Greece exit from eurozone

15 May 2012

Global stocks plunged over the possible exit of Greece from the euro zone and concerns over China’s move to prop up lending to combat eon omic slowdown

Facebook offering seeing lower than expected demand: reports

14 May 2012

Analysts say expectations on Facebook are way too high and given its fundamentals, the company does not look anywhere cheap in valuation

Sony posts $5.6 billion annual loss

11 May 2012

British greeting card retail chain Clinton Cards goes into administration

10 May 2012

LyondellBasell to hike dividend payout by 60 per cent

09 May 2012

Facebook IPO road show today but Buffett is not buying

07 May 2012

Facebook kicks off its highly anticipated IPO road show today, but two men who wont be buying into the social network are Warren Buffett and his 88-year old Berkshire Hathway vice chairman Charlie Munger

Facebook prices shares in $28-$35 band

05 May 2012

China sales, Singulair drive Merck’s Q1-2012 net to $3 bn

28 Apr 2012

Merck's worldwide sales for the first quarter of 2012 rose just one per cent to $11.7 billion due to the unfavorable impact from the arbitration settlement agreement with Johnson & Johnson

Maple Group may extend $3.6-bn offer for Canada's TMX

28 Apr 2012

Starbucks net income rises 18 per cent in fiscal Q2

27 Apr 2012

AstraZeneca Q1 profit slumps; CEO quits

27 Apr 2012

Apple Q2 net up 94 pc on iPhones, iPads

26 Apr 2012

Apple sold 35.1 million iPhones and 11.8 million iPads during the quarter, representing a jump of 88 per cent and 151 per cent, respectively, over the year-ago quarter

Coca-Cola to go for stock split after 16 years

26 Apr 2012

The world's biggest beverage maker said yesterday that the 2-for-1 split was as per its plans to double revenue over this decade

McDonald’s reports quarterly profit of $1.27 bn

21 Apr 2012

The shares of McDonald's closed at $95.94 on news of first-quarter profit rising to $1.27 billion, or $1.23 per share, on revenues of $6.55 billion

Carlyle seeks up to $8 billion valuation in IPO: report

11 Apr 2012

Carlyle Group LP, the second-biggest private-equity firm in the US, is seeking a market valuation of $7.5 billion to $8 billion in an initial public offer