US News

New US growth slips to four-year low. At 51.4 in June, down from 52.9 in May, the Global All-Industry Output Index – produced by JPMorgan and Markit in association with ISM and IFPSM – posted its lowest reading in a year. The index has nonetheless remained in expansion territory throughout the past 47 months. The […]

The price of oil is up.  Major stock indices are down.  Egypt is in crisis mode again.  Make that “Egypt is still in crisis mode.”  With the satellite news feed from Cairo, millions of people around the world are witnessing millions of Egyptians protesting against what looks like is going to be a short-lived Morsi […]

You remember the Winklevoss twins.  They are the guys to whom Mark Zuckerberg paid $65 million in combined cash and equity in Facebook to settle the lawsuit in which they alleged that Zuckerberg had stolen their social networking idea.  Today, under the sponsorship of Math-Based Asset Services LLC (a Winklevoss company), Cameron and Tyler filed […]

Change in the Murdoch empire News Corp has announced that it has completed the separation of its businesses from 21st Century Fox (formerly called News Corporation), effective today at 4:30 pm EDT. The new News Corp is a leading global network of powerful, valuable and complementary brands in news and information services, sports programming in […]

After several weeks of declines the UK index has registered some welcome progress, finding support just above the round number 6000 and posting a 4.5% rally to test the trendline of falling highs since end-May. Uncertainty may still be rife regarding the future of the US Federal Reserve’s QE3 programme. However, Bernanke had his committee […]

EU approve Euronext combininng with IntercontinentalExchange NYSE Euronext have announced that it has been notified by the European Commission that the proposed acquisition of the Company by IntercontinentalExchange has been unconditionally approved. “We welcome the European Commission’s decision,” said Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext. “This is obviously a significant step forward...

Global EcoPower lists on NYSE Alternext. NYSE Euronext has today announced the listing on NYSE Alternext in Paris of Global EcoPower, a turnkey constructor of power plants using renewable energy sources. Based in Aix-en-Provence, Global EcoPower is managed by two specialists in wind power and finance, CEO Jean-Marie Santander and EVP Philippe Perret, who have […]

NYSE to Commence Proceedings to Delist the Common Stock of Verso Paper Corp. The New York Stock Exchange have announced that the staff of NYSE Regulation have determined to commence proceedings to delist the common stock of Verso Paper Corp. Verso has a right to a review of this determination by a committee of the […]

Up, up and away for new venture? Air BP, the aviation fuel services division of BP, has signed an agreement with Grupa Lotos to form a new joint venture to manage the supply, logistics and marketing of aviation fuel in Poland. The new joint venture, Lotos – Air BP Polska, will be formed by Air […]

Everyone knows that the markets drooped following Wednesday’s U.S. Federal Reserve update from Ben Bernanke.  You should also know by now that I am a big-picture kind of guy, but when one observes from the 30,000 foot level, one also misses some of the details that, on any other day, would be major headlines.  For […]