Archive for February 2005
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Standard Chartered Chief Executive Mervyn Davies said the Asia-focused bank wanted to stay independent as it reported 2004 profit in line with market expectations on Wednesday. Pretax profit for the year to December 31 rose
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BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, said first-half profit more than doubled on China-led metals demand, but forecast a global shortage of refined copper would ease in the next year. Analysts scrambled to upgrade forecasts
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BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, said first-half profit more than doubled on China-led metals demand, but forecast a global shortage of refined copper would ease in the next year. Analysts scrambled to upgrade forecasts
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Spanish builder Sacyr sold a 3.1 percent stake in BBVA for a fat gain on Wednesday, giving up a plan to become a core player at the bank and ending a saga that bemused financial
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Spanish builder Sacyr sold a 3.1 percent stake in BBVA for a fat gain on Wednesday, giving up a plan to become a core player at the bank and ending a saga that bemused financial
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Wednesday that the former Soviet state's new administration would review around 3,000 past privatisations, far more than suggested by President Viktor Yushchenko. Tymoshenko, Yushchenko's radical choice to head
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German firms have become positive about their current state of business for the first time since summer 2001 and are also more optimistic about the future, according to a survey published on Wednesday. Nevertheless, Europe's
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Applications for home mortgages in the US decreased slightly last week as home purchasing activity dropped but consumers still clamored to refinance existing loans, an industry group said on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association said
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Futures markets remain convinced eurozone interest rates will not rise until late this year, but they are vulnerable to anything that might indicate this could happen sooner rather than later. Euribor futures, which reflect eurozone
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The British housing market looks set to stabilise this year with house price inflation forecast at less than one percent and the chances of a prices crash seen as remote, according to a Reuters poll
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