Stock markets - world

First dividend cut from GE since Great Depression

28 Feb 2009

Wall Street hits a 12-year low as stocks nosedive

24 Feb 2009

Top US home-improvement retailer Home Depot files $54-million quarterly loss

24 Feb 2009

BlueScope Steel reports 250 per cent rise in H1 net; sees losses in second half

23 Feb 2009

Mining giant Anglo American reports 29 per cent profit drop, to cut 19,000 jobs

20 Feb 2009

Murdoch’s News Corp reports biggest quarterly loss of $6.41 billion

07 Feb 2009

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has posted its biggest ever quarterly net loss, after taking an $8.4 billion write-down for the value of its Dow Jones acquisition, broadcasting licenses and other assets

Siemens Q1 results beat expectations

27 Jan 2009

Telenor scraps $1.6-billion rights issue; to fund Unitech deal with cash and debt

27 Jan 2009

Financial services drag GE profits down by 44 per cent

24 Jan 2009

Samsung reports first-ever quarterly loss

23 Jan 2009

Nippon Steel doubles production cuts

23 Jan 2009

Ericsson beats market blues, will still lay off 5,000 bracing for 2009

21 Jan 2009

Yahoo stock rises on end of CEO search rumours

09 Jan 2009

Venture capital IPOs down 90 per cent in 2008: report

06 Jan 2009

Logitech withdraws fiscal year 2009 targets, plans restructuring

06 Jan 2009

Internet stocks sank in 2008

06 Jan 2009

US judge okays transfer of Madoff’s $28.1 million to cover liquidation cost

31 Dec 2008

Obama chooses Mary Schapiro as first woman SEC chairman

18 Dec 2008

GE provides outlook for 2008 and 2009

18 Dec 2008

SEC to investigate in-house flaws to nail Madoff

18 Dec 2008

News Corporation to switch listing from NYSE to Nasdaq

17 Dec 2008

HSBC discloses $1billion exposure to Madoff fraud

16 Dec 2008

HSBC yesterday said it had an exposure of around $1billion in  US financier Bernard Madoff.'s investment fraud

Madoff fraud losses may be below $50 billion

13 Dec 2008

Resolution raises £600 million war chest for acquisitions

06 Dec 2008

SEC tightens regulations for credit rating agencies

04 Dec 2008