Archive for December 2012
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Austria sold 1 billion euros worth of two government bonds at record low yields on Tuesday, paying roughly half the rates prevailing in June thanks to its status as one of the euro zone's few
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Japanese government bonds mostly slipped on Friday, with benchmark yields touching their highest level this month, as investors braced for a weekend election likely to bring the conservative Liberal Democratic Party back to power and
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Japanese government bonds mostly slipped on Friday, with benchmark yields touching their highest level this month, as investors braced for a weekend election likely to bring the conservative Liberal Democratic Party back to power and
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SolarCity Corp's successful market debut could warm up the chilly environment for stocks of alternative energy companies. The solar installer had a difficult journey to becoming a public company this week, but the deal is
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SolarCity Corp's successful market debut could warm up the chilly environment for stocks of alternative energy companies. The solar installer had a difficult journey to becoming a public company this week, but the deal is
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Stocks in Latin American mostly rose on Friday on data showing a surge in factory activity in China, a key consumer of the region's raw materials, but uncertainty over the outcome of US budget negotiations
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US stocks fell on Friday as another slide in Apple took a toll and investors unloaded some shares because of the uncertainty surrounding the "fiscal cliff" negotiations. For the Nasdaq, this marked the second losing
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Friday that it began selling Apple Inc's flagship iPhone 5 smartphone at a big discount in thousands of its stores. Wal-Mart said it is selling the 16 GB Apple iPhone
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Mexico and Argentina agreed Friday to resume trade in automobiles, ending a six-month-old dispute by striking a deal that will reduce the number of cars exported to Argentina without tariffs. "We have reached an agreement
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Some hedge funds are calling it quits on one of their biggest trades of the year - shorting French government bonds. Earlier this year many in London's hedge fund industry were lining up bets against
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