Stock markets - world

Property website Zoopla float to value site at £919 million

19 Jun 2014

Rajat Gupta begins jail term after losing in insider trading appeal

18 Jun 2014

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta began his prison sentence after fighting a protracted legal battle to clear his name in one of the biggest insider trading cases in US history

US stocks up after first weekly drop in a month

17 Jun 2014

Emirates shocks Airbus, Rolls Royce; cancels $16-bn A350 deal

12 Jun 2014

Rolls Royce and Airbus suffered an unexpected reversal as Dubai’s Emirates cancelled a $16-billion order for the A350

World’s top 1% investors rapidly getting richer: Boston Group study

11 Jun 2014

The world’s richest 1 per cent had one of their finest years in 2013, propelled by robust equities performance in developed economies and healthy GDP growth in emerging markets

Vodafone annual report allows for Indian tax demand of Rs27,000 cr

09 Jun 2014

Market sensitive information leaked to brokers: ASIC

28 May 2014

Intercontinental Exchange Group lines up investors to acquire part of Euronext

28 May 2014

S&P up over 1900 for first time

26 May 2014

Lenovo reports 30% higher annual profit

22 May 2014

Though sales in China,its largest market, rose just 1.3 per cent, sales rose 27.1 per cent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and 31.1 per cent in the Americas

Google overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable technology firm

21 May 2014

Google’s brand value shot up 40 per cent in a year to $158.84 billion while Apple’s brand value fell 20 per cent to $147.88 billion, according to Millward Brown’s ‘2014 100 Top BrandZ’ report

Sony reports $1.26-bn full-year net loss

14 May 2014

Sony President Kazuo Hirai has led a sweeping restructuring, including asset liquidisation that saw the $1.0 billion sale of Sony`s Manhattan headquarters

Tesla stock down 7 per cent after dismal second quarter outlook

08 May 2014

Tesla stock down 7 per cent after dismal second quarter outlook

08 May 2014

Centrica shares down 5% on news of Canadian divestment to Qatar Petroleum

08 May 2014

Profits double at Japanese carmaker Toyota

08 May 2014

Toyota's profits almost doubled, boosted by the weakness of the yen and cost cutting by the world's auto maker

HSBC first-quarter pre-tax profit down 20 per cent

08 May 2014

Europe's biggest bank, with operations across 75 countries, said revenue prospects were decent in Asia but stood weaker in Latin America, where it had withdrawn from many markets