18 Mar 2014 @ 15:38
How would you answer if I asked you, “Who is is largest e-commerce company in the world, measured by the amount of business transacted?” Would you pick Amazon or eBay? Or, thinking that I was asking a trick question, would you go with Google? It really doesn’t matter, because if you named one of those […]
14 Mar 2014 @ 15:17
Lucy MacDonald, who manages some $7.3 billion in assets in her position as CIO of Allianz Global Investors, has declared that BP (LSE:BP.) (
NYSE:BP) is now “more investable” as a result of the company’s entering into an administrative agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency four years past the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf […]
12 Mar 2014 @ 22:08
Trading suspended and delisting proceedings have commenced. The New York Stock Exchange has announced that the staff of NYSE Regulation has determined to commence proceedings to delist the Common Stock of Accretive Health, Inc. (NYSE:AH). Trading in the Company’s Common Stock will be suspended prior to the opening of trading on the NYSE on Monday, […]
08 Mar 2014 @ 11:04
Euronext, a wholly owned subsidiary of IntercontinentalExchange Group (
NYSE:ICE), today announced that starting on 3 March 2014, APG, the largest pension fund Asset Manager in the Netherlands, is the first Dutch institutional investor to operate as an intermediated participant on BondMatch. APG has selected KBL European Private Bankers (KBL epb), one of Europe’s leading private […]
08 Mar 2014 @ 10:57
The Board of Royal Dutch Shell has announced the pounds sterling and euro equivalent dividend payments in respect of the fourth quarter 2013 interim dividend, which was announced on January 30, 2014 at US$0.45 per A ordinary share (“A Share”) and B ordinary share (“B Share”). Dividends on A Shares will be paid, by default, […]
05 Mar 2014 @ 11:04
EnterNext announces the successful corporate bonds listing by Eandis on its Brussels Alternext market. Eandis is an independent network operator and distributor of electricity and natural gas in Flanders (Belgium). It operates in 234 municipalities from the Belgian Coast to the Kempen region and employs about 4,200 employees. The two bonds are admitted to listing […]
28 Feb 2014 @ 18:28
GlaxoSmithKline (
LSE:GSK) may be one of the most interesting stocks to watch on the London Stock Exchange. It has certainly endured its fair share of bumps and bruises of late, especially with the scandals in China generating publicity and causing a loss of revenues in country. Yesterday GSK released its annual report for the year […]
12 Feb 2014 @ 17:30
James Bullard is the President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. While all eyes have been on Janet Yellin the past several days, Bullard was in New York City this morning, speaking to representatives of the European American Chamber or Commerce. Aside from his address, he made a comment to reporters that, as Lincoln […]
10 Feb 2014 @ 17:07
I worked in the automotive business for more than 25 years. I have owned only one automotive stock, and it was the only stock I have owned that I consider to have been a bad investment. But I drive a Jaguar convertible, so today’s report of stellar sales at the Jaguar Land Rover division of […]
06 Feb 2014 @ 15:59
Have you ever woke up in the morning and you just knew it was going to be “one of those days?” That’s how Kazuo Hirai and Mary Barra woke up in completely different parts of the world this a.m. On the other hand, it’s just as likely that neither of them slept at all last […]