What's crimping Japan? Money Week | Currency traders may talk of the yen soaring to a new record against the dollar, but no one is getting excited about Japanese stocks. Indeed, the Nikkei 225 index has fallen even as the yen has strengthened. "It may be overdoing it to say that the strong yen has caused the stockmarket to weaken," ...
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom The New York Times | FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common site on auto assembly lines around the world. | Kuka said last month that its sales had bounced back ...
What's crimping Japan? Money Week | Currency traders may talk of the yen soaring to a new record against the dollar, but no one is getting excited about Japanese stocks. Indeed, the Nikkei 225 index has fallen even as the yen has strengthened. "It may be overdoing it to say that the ...
JPM, Goldman, Losing Share of FIG Pie The Street By Dan Freed 09/03/10 - 08:52 AM EDT Add Comment Stock quotes in this article:JPM, GS, DB, BAC, C Tweet | NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Bank of America (BAC) and Deutsche Bank(DB) are gaining ground in the strategically important business of providin...
Broker's Notes: Euro holds firm; so does gold Gulf News | Euro | The euro and high-yielding currencies held firm on Friday after an improvement in US housing and jobless claims data bolstered investor appetite for risk ahead of key US jobs data due later in the day. Positive news on the US economy and ris...
Good half for Baillie Gifford Shin Money Week | A good half for shares of Japanese smaller companies helped Ballie Gifford's Shin Nippon investment trust outstrip both the broader Japanese market and also most major world markets. | The Japanese small cap -focused trust's NAV rose by 9.7% in the...
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Asian automakers post robust sales for August Gulf News | Seoul/Beijing: Asian auto sales rose strongly in August, benefiting from government moves to encourage purchases of new and cleaner vehicles, though an uncertain US economy ...
Indian economy reflects new order Gulf News | India is forecasting that its economy will expand 8.5 per cent over the year, in part on the back of exceptionally strong growth this quarter. | This is good news for the Gulf re...
World Stocks Rise; China Manufacturing Up The Street The two indicators are a break from a stream of weak economic readings from the U.S. to Japan that sent stock markets into a funk the past month as investors fretted about a slowin...
Key to limitless energy Gulf News | It is one of mankind's most daring experiments — a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by harnessing the explosive power of the Sun. Such is the appeal of the idea that the ...
EDITORIAL: Managing public finance Asahi News | Prime Minister Naoto Kan and former Democratic Party of Japan Secretary-General Ichiro Ozawa showed strikingly different stances on implementing the party's manifesto in Wednesday's news conference. | They also clearly oppose each other on the crit...
Euro rises amid strong eurozone growth data The Times Of India LONDON: The euro rose against the dollar on Thursday following strong eurozone growth data and ahead of key monetary policy announcements from the European Central Bank and keenly-awaited US jobs data. | In morning London trade, the European single c...
Asia stocks rise on slight improvement in US data Philadelphia Daily News | JOE McDONALD | The Associated Press | BEIJING - Most Asian stock markets climbed Friday as investors took heart from a slight improvement in U.S. economic indicators amid lingering worries over the pace of the global economic recovery. | Gains were modest across the region as investors waited for U.S. employment figures due out later Friday. Augu...
European Indexes Slip After Asian Shares End Higher The New York Times | European indexes were lower on Monday as markets cautiously began a week that culminates Friday with Washington’s report on the August job market. | Shares in Asia closed higher, with the Nikkei 225 in Tokyo, rising 158.20 points, or 1.8 percent, to 9,149.26 after Japan’s central bank eased monetary policy again in its latest attempt ...
