Archive for December 2012
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Sri Lankan stocks gained on Friday, led by heavy foreign buying in market heavyweight John Keells Holdings, while local retailers bought speculative shares amid falling interest rates. The Colombo Stock Exchange's main index rose 0.65
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Latin American stocks rose broadly in 2012, with Mexico's IPC index outpacing Brazil's Bovespa and Chile's IPC, though constant concerns over global economic growth and the euro zone debt crisis kept investors on edge. Brazilian
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Japanese government bonds were steady on the last trading day of 2012 with benchmark yields at the three-month high hit in the previous session, on expectations that the new year will bring more fiscal and
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Japanese government bonds were steady on the last trading day of 2012 with benchmark yields at the three-month high hit in the previous session, on expectations that the new year will bring more fiscal and
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Facebook shares fell Friday after a report said its photo-sharing app Instagram had lost millions of users following the release of planned policy changes since dropped on an outcry from users. According to audience tracker
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Facebook shares fell Friday after a report said its photo-sharing app Instagram had lost millions of users following the release of planned policy changes since dropped on an outcry from users. According to audience tracker
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US stocks fell for a fifth straight day on Friday, dropping 1 percent and marking the S&P 500's longest losing streak in three months as the federal government edged closer to the "fiscal cliff" with
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The 'currency wars' long deplored by Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega have involved little more than shouting matches so far, but the risk of an outbreak of outright hostilities in 2013 is growing. Thursday's decision
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Key Euribor bank-to-bank lending rates ticked up on Friday after comments from a clutch of European Central Bank policymakers since the bank's monthly meeting eroded hopes for another official rate cut. Joerg Asmussen, a member
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Chile's peso closed 0.23 percent stronger against the US dollar on Friday at 478.70, bringing the currency's accumulated gains versus the greenback this year to 8.48 percent. The peso, which has been boosted by Chile's
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