EUROPEAN stocks fell last week in holiday-shortened trading on signs that the deteriorating global economy is snuffing out earnings growth. Volkswagen AG, the region's largest car maker, sank more than 9 percent after Japan's Toyota Motor Corp ...
ING Groep NV strategists cut their 2008 estimate for the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index by 11 percent, forecasting that equities will remain near current levels after the European Central Bank suggested it may raise interest rates. London-based ...
EQUITY markets are likely to slip further this year as severed access to credit hurts the "real" economy and corporate earnings, said Mark Van der Kroft, who oversees US$70 billion in stocks at Robeco Group. Van der Kroft, chief investment officer ...
"SHORT-SELLERS," or people who make money when shares fall, have the widest choice of stocks since at least 1990, as corporate finances deteriorate and profit growth slows, according to a Societe Generale SA strategist. About 100 European stocks ...
Mutual funds are selling stocks and hoarding cash just as trading surges to a record and prices grow more volatile than at any time since the Great Depression. Forty-three percent of managers surveyed this month by Merrill Lynch moved more money into ...
August Busch III, an AT&T Inc. board member since 1980, bought $2.27 million of shares in the biggest U.S. phone company last month, his largest purchase on record. Monsanto Co. director William Parfet added to his holdings in the world's No. 1 seed ...
EUROPE'S Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index posted its first annual decline since 2002, as benchmarks in the UK and France dropped on the last day of trading in 2007. Rio Tinto Group and Xstrata Plc slipped the most in two weeks as copper prices fell. Gaz de ...
EUROPEAN stocks climbed for a fifth week after takeover offers for Hagemeyer NV, Burren Energy Plc and Business Objects SA added to evidence that mergers and acquisitions are recovering from a summer slump. Telefonica SA led a gain in phone shares ...
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