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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing extensive news, comment and analysis, the newspaper is printed at 23 print sites across the globe, and has a readership of 1.3 million people worldwide in print and online.
Activist pension funds to target boards
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
Large activist pension funds are to launch a campaign to shake up underperforming US companies, using new rules due to be agreed on Wednesday that allow shareholders to directly nominate board directors Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
PPF to unveil long-term pension funding plans
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
The Pension Protection Fund, the body that stands behind the retirement promises of insolvent employers, is to reveal its strategy to generate enough cash to pay all future benefits Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
China fund bond sale faces criticism
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
The domestic arm of China’s main sovereign wealth fund completed its first bond sale, raising Rmb40bn ($5.9bn) from the interbank market as it prepares to help recapitalise some of the world’s largest banks Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
WPP raises forecasts as advertising rebounds
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
A rapid rebound in advertising in North America and on television that surprised even Sir Martin Sorrell pushed WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, to raise its earnings guidance for the year Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
iPad wrestles with sumo fat finger problem
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
The tablet computer is about to come to the rescue of Japan’s burly sumo wrestlers, whose beefy digits are ill-suited to wrestling with tiny smartphone handsets Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
China’s fertiliser needs in view
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
As all eyes look to China for a possible competing offer for PotashCorp, the country’s fertiliser needs are increasingly in the limelight Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
Facebook’s ‘value’ soars as investors seek pre-IPO stake
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
Facebook is now worth as much as $33.7bn based on secondary market transactions, giving the privately held company an implied valuation greater than the market capitalisations of publicly traded internet stalwarts such as Ebay and Yahoo Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
Toyota to make the Prius noisier
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
The Japanese carmaker is set to sell a device that can be installed in the Prius to simulate the sound of a motor and warn pedestrians that the ultra-quiet car is approaching Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
Asian markets continue retreat from risk
By Financial Times on August 25, 2010
Asian stocks are heading lower again as a plunge in US home sales and a further slowdown in Japan’s export growth fuel concerns about a waning global economic recovery Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Markets jittery over growth
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Fears that the US and other major economies are slowing sharply sent investors piling into the safety of government debt, pushing UK, German and US bond yields down to record lows Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Gloomy data spark Wall Street sell-off
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
US stocks sunk as investors across the world fled risky assets and Wall Street feared that weak housing figures could pave the way for even more disappointing economic data Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Worries about US recovery deepen
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Disappointing US economic data is driving a surge in demand for low-yielding assets, with the Japanese yen setting another 15-year high and government bonds at further record low yields Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Primark sale talk helps AB Foods avoid Footsie retreat
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
The group was the top performer in an otherwise gloomy market, as miners and materials groups led stocks lower and building shares were depressed by a profit warning Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
European construction hit by CRH warning
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Irish equities come under pressure after a profit warning from the housebuilder, which is highly exposed to the US market, sends fear rippling through the sector Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
IMF economists criticise CDS model
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Paper argues that banks’ spreads failed to rise sharply in crisis as bondholders did not expect to bear any losses Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Foreign buyers flock to US Treasuries
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Overseas investors scoop up longer-term debt as low short-term rates and fears about sub-par growth and disinflation encourage them to look further along the curve Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Hurricane relief sees natural gas retreat
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
A weakening storm is set to steer clear of gas drilling and pipeline equipment on the Gulf of Mexico coast, easing pressure on energy prices Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Recession fears send sterling to month-low against dollar
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Talk of a risk of a double-dip recession from Martin Weale, the newest member of the monetary policy committee, leads to pressure on the pound Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
View of the Day: Peter Beuttell, MTS Research
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
Technical factors indicate a risk of a sell-off in US equities, with a rise in the number of stocks hitting 52-week highs and 52-week lows, a criteria of the ‘Hindenburg Omen’ sell signal Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Markets |
Santander executive charged with insider trading
By Financial Times on August 24, 2010
A senior Banco Santander executive was charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission in relation to the hostile $39bn bid by BHP Billiton, the mining company, for PotashCorp, the fertiliser producer Read the full story on the Financial Times
Posted in Companies |
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