Topic: Dow Jones & Co. Inc.
Taiwanese authorities said Tuesday they will intervene in the island's stock market and spend up to $16 billion on shares, after it was hit hard by the fall-out from Europe's deepening debt crisis."We've agreed to authorise the executive ...
China's politically sensitive trade surplus narrowed to $14.5 billion in November, Dow Jones newswires reported, down from the $17 billion reported a month earlier.The figure is a perennial point of contention for China's key trade partners, the United ...
Britain's trade-in-goods deficit shrank in October as exports hit a record amount, official data showed on Friday.The deficit fell to £7.6 billion ($11.9 billion, 8.9 billion euros) compared with a revised shortfall of £10.2 billion in ...
South Korea's central bank said Friday it has increased the amount of gold it holds as it moves to hedge against global volatility caused by European and US debt crises.The Bank of Korea said it bought 15 tons of the ...
South Korea's annual inflation rate was 4.2 percent in November, official figures showed Thursday, back above the central bank's target range despite a revision of the consumer price index.The figure announced by Statistics Korea compares with a revised ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Conference Board's U.S. consumer confidence index jumped in November to 56.0 from a upwardly revised 40.9 in October, the private business research group reported on Tuesday.COMMENTS:JOHN DOYLE, CURRENCY STRATEGIST, TEMPUS CONSULTING, WASHINGTON ...
Shares in CNOOC, China's biggest offshore oil and gas producer, fell in Hong Kong Friday after it replaced Yang Hua as chief executive, the latest in a string of management shake-ups at top Chinese firms.The company said it had appointed ...
India's Aditya Birla Group has signed a confidentiality deal with New Hope Corporation as the battle to buy the Australian coal miner heats up, a report said Wednesday.The move will allow the Indian conglomerate to examine the miner's financial ...
London Stock Exchange Group, which wants to buy clearing house LCH.Clearnet, said on Wednesday that first-half profits soared 86 percent on cost-cutting, diversification and its strong post-trade business.Earnings after taxation surged to £116.1 million (136 million euros, $183 million ...
British state borrowing shrank by more than expected in September, official data showed on Friday, boosting the coalition government's deficit reduction plans.Public sector net borrowing -- the state's preferred measure of the public finances -- fell to £14.1 billion (16 ...