Ryanair Shares Lose Altitude
Buy the rumor, sell the fact. The old stock market adage explains why shares in Ryanair Holdings lost some altitude Monday despite the budget airline's robust third quarter results and bullish outlook...
View ArticlePhilips Exits Consumer Electronics
Philips Electronics has drawn a line under its long history as a consumer-electronics company after failing to compete successfully with the likes of Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and Sony Corp....
View ArticleBroker Note Briefing: Tuesday
Our picks of today's broker notes with a focus on European pharmaceuticals.
View ArticleCredibly Irresponsible Carney?
Bank of England governor-elect Mark Carney is making every effort to sound credibly irresponsible. But will he be?
View ArticleRetail Buying May Not Herald Stocks’ Peak
What's the difference between this equity rally and all the other hopeful upticks we've seen over the past couple of years?
View ArticleBroker Note Briefing: Wednesday
European stocks are floating between small losses and gains Wednesday, with the focus firmly on the oil and gas sectors.
View ArticleTesco Drops Supplier Over Horse-Meat Scandal
Tesco has dropped the meat supplier that supplied it with beef burgers tainted with horse meat and will introduce its own DNA testing to ensure contamination doesn't happen again.
View ArticleGlobal Regulator Report to Raise Questions over Bank Risk
Global banking regulators will publish a report Thursday questioning how banks assess the riskiness of some of their assets, in a step that may lead to tighter rules requiring them to hold more capital.
View ArticlePlatinum and Gold Near Parity In Anticipation of FOMC Statement
Platinum continues to trade at a slightly higher price than gold, but the threats to supply which recently pushed platinum prices above gold are now easing, while this week offers a number of...
View ArticleBroker Briefing Note: Thursday
Banks were under the cosh Thursday in Europe after Spain's Banco Santander disappointed with its fourth-quarter results. Analysts at Nomura said the results showed how the bank's revenues in its key...
View ArticleAre Interest-Rate Hedges Another PPI for Britain’s Banks?
News that the Financial Services Authority found evidence of significant misselling of interest rate hedging products to small businesses sent U.K. bank shares lower this morning. But analysts are...
View ArticleBSkyB Opens Up Sports Channels to Pay-As-You-Go Viewers
U.K. satellite broadcaster British Sky Broadcasting Group said Thursday it is opening up its most prized assets – its six sports channels -- to pay-as-you-go customers for the first time, amid rising...
View ArticleDeutsche Investors Bank on Better Capital Position
Despite delivering fourth-quarter earnings way below anything markets had expected, Deutsche Bank shares have been trading in positive territory for most of the day, as analysts focus on improvements...
View ArticleAiling AstraZeneca Should Go Shopping for Deals
Pascal Soriot, the new chief executive of AstraZeneca, said Thursday that the company didn't need to do a large acquisition to stem the hemorrhages in revenue it's suffering as drugs come off patent....
View ArticleDeutsche Bank’s Agri-Commodity Hiccup
Rarely is Deutsche Bank's press conference as colorful. But Thursday morning it was barely possible to make it past the rabble of protestors chanting songs about world food supply and rising food...
View ArticleBroker Note Briefing: Friday
Our pick of today's broker notes, with the focus on European banks.
View ArticleDespite Setbacks, Shell Remains Focused on Alaska
Shell's controversial plan to explore for oil in the Arctic offshore Alaska has suffered multiple setbacks, from lawsuits and pressure from environmental groups to equipment failures and difficulties...
View ArticleBT Rings Up Some Cheer
BT boss Ian Livingston cheered analysts and investors on Friday by reporting market beating third-quarter results.
View ArticleU.K.-Focused Equity Might Have Another Good Year In It
It's a crusty old market commonplace that London's benchmark equity index isn't the place to bet on the U.K. economy's fortunes.
View ArticleBroker Briefing Note: Monday
Italian banks were under the cosh Monday, with both UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo among the biggest decliners in Europe's blue-chip stocks. This follows hot on the heels of news Friday that prosecutors...
View Article
