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Markets in Europe were higher at 6.30 AM New York time. The FTSE rose 1.1% to 6,565. Barclays (BCS) is up 3.8% to 575. HSBC (HBC) is up 3.4% to 858.5. Prudential (PUK) is up 3.2% to 693. The DAXX is...
A funny thing happened on the way to creating a $100 billion "Super Fund" to loan money to SIVs which needed short term cash to stay in business. These SIVs own a lot of mortgage-backs securities...
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei fell .5% to 15,271. Hitachi (HIT) fell 1.4% to 754. Honda (HMC) fell 1.4% to 3610. NTT (NTT) fell 1.4% to 479000. Sony (SNE) rose 3.3% to 5940. The Hang Seng...
According to Reuters, Citigroup (C) is selling up to 4.9 percent of itself for $7.5 billion to the investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government. Reuters writes that retail stocks fell despite...
Markets in Asia were mixed. The Nikkei rose .6% to 15,223. Daiwa Securities rose 4.2% to 1095. Hitachi (HIT) rose 2% to 765. Sony (SNE) rose 4.5% to 5750. The Hang Seng fell 1.5% to 27,210. HSBC...
Asia markets are likely to open lower based on a sharp fall in US financial shares and concerns about the dollar. “With the U.S. performing so poorly, it can only mean bad news for the market...
HSBC (HBC) is taking $41 billion in SIV assets onto it balance sheet, a move that could pressure US banks like Citigroup (C) to follow. Bloomberg writes "investors in the SIVs will be able to...
Market in Japan and China should expect big pressure at the open on concerns over US credit markets, a lending freeze in China, and rising oil prices. .Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo exchanges are...
Losses related to record U.S. home foreclosures using a “back-of-the-envelope” calculation may be as high as $400 billion for financial companies, Jan Hatzius, chief economist at Goldman (GS) in...
Below is some of the top news pre-market: Applied Materials (AMAT) reports earnings after close; estimates are $0.29 EPS & R$2.38B. BEA Systems (BEAS) said it expects to submit SEC filings...
Big bank HSBC (HBC) will take a $3.4 billion charge "I think the thing that’s emerged in the third quarter is that the housing market deterioration is beginning to have a broader impact, both...
According to Reuters, executives at Ford (F) say that they see a tough US market and will cut production as necessary. Reuters reports that Northern Rock received an injunction from the publication...
According to Reuters, BHP Billiton (BHP) will not sell its petroleum division, as had been rumored, to finance a bid for Rio Tinto (RTP). Reuters writes that most of the Hershey (HSY) was pushed out...
Markets in Europe were mixed at 6.25 AM New York time. The FTSE fell .3% to 6,660. HSBC (HBC) was down 1.1% to 953. Northern Rock was down 2.2% to 203 The DAXX rose .1% to 7,994. SAP (SAP) was down...
Markets in Europe were off slightly at 6.45 AM New York time. The FTSE fell .1% to 6,587. HSBC (HBC) was down 1.6% to 946. Northern Rock was up 9.8% to 174.1. The DAXX fell .1% to 7,996. Deutsche...