Posted by Reuters: Business News on February 5, 2012
(Reuters) – The United States is coming to be seen as a global threat, acting unilaterally with aggressive new market rules that critics say will hurt U.S. firms, foreign banks, and international markets in one swoop.



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Posted by The PIPEs Report on January 27, 2012
Citigroup Global Markets and Piper Jaffray & Co. acted as the joint book-running managers on a $…
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Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 20, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – Investors rattled by unpredictable global markets are losing faith in star managers to shield them from painful losses, with some of the industry’s best known names topping a list of funds which hemorrhaged cash in 2011, Lipper data shows.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on January 11, 2012
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co said on Wednesday it will reduce its workforce by 3 percent, making it the latest agribusiness giant to make cuts in the face of volatile global markets.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 21, 2011
(Reuters) – U.S. commodity markets have shrunk almost 9 percent since MF Global’s collapse as farmers, investors and traders close out positions, according to a Reuters analysis of data that suggests there may be lasting effects from the industry’s most disruptive broker failure.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 15, 2011
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Two of Hong Kong’s biggest recent initial public offerings slumped in their trading debuts on Thursday, falling victim to weak investor demand that has pressured new listings in the once booming global IPO powerhouse.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 2, 2011
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Britain orchestrated this week’s bold move by central banks to stave off a cash crunch in global markets, helping drive a plan that began to take shape around 10 days ago.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on December 1, 2011
BEIJING (Reuters) – As the world’s major central banks hurriedly announced measures to ease stresses in global funding markets, China may have felt compelled to bring forward a move to relax policy that it could otherwise have delayed for a few weeks.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 15, 2011
PARIS/ROME (Reuters) – France came under heavy fire on global markets on Tuesday reflecting fears that the euro zone’s second biggest economy is being sucked into the debt crisis after a warning that Paris’s inability to adapt should be “ringing alarm bells”.



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Posted by Reuters: Business News on November 14, 2011
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Tuesday, as a rise in euro zone bond yields reflected lingering doubts about the ability of politicians in Italy and Greece to push through painful reforms to resolve their debt crises and win market confidence.



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