Reuters: Stocks & Shares News

Islamic bond problems herald due-diligence era

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:35:15 +0000

LONDON/MANAMA (Reuters) - Islamic bond defaults and the standstill requested for Dubai's Nakheel will transform the market as investors demand more transparency and subject new issues to forensic due diligence.

Sugar risks price fall despite bullish view

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:34:34 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Sugar futures, which doubled in price this year, could fall early in 2010 when the market wakes up to a big cane overhang from Brazil's current harvest, despite a popular view that prices should remain buoyant.

Blame game slows growth of personalised medicine

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:34:58 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Expectation has been building for a decade that an era of personalised medicine will transform the global drugs business, but the reality is a slow start and an angry blame game between scientists, marketers and regulators.

China stock bubble set to burst next year

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:18:29 +0000

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ballooning stock market bubble, fuelled by excessive liquidity, is likely to burst in the first half of 2010, punctured by economic concerns arising from higher-than-expected inflation, Morgan Stanley Asia Executive Director Jerry Lou said on Thursday.

Price rise may be only option to save Airbus A400M

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:43:15 +0000

PARIS (Reuters) - A higher sticker price and fewer guaranteed deliveries may be the only way to rescue Europe's new military transport plane after years of costly delays.

Oil pricing agencies battle over benchmarks

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:42:59 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - How much does a barrel of oil cost? With billions of dollars at stake, sometimes the answer depends on who is doing the asking.

Saab failure another dent in China's auto dreams

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:58:11 +0000

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China's automakers may dominate their home market, now the world's largest, but the collapse of the sale of Saab to a Chinese-backed group shows it will be a bumpy ride for them to build a global profile.

U.S. tariffs would chill climate pact and trade

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:47:54 +0000

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any threat by the United States to slap fees on imports from countries it perceives as weak on cutting carbon emissions could hamper trade relations and delay international efforts to combat global warming.

Liquidity to keep market rates low after year-end

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:28:33 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Ample cash in the system should see euro zone money markets run smoothly over year-end and lending rates stay low in the first half of 2010 after the European Central Bank's next offering of 1-year money.

Pressure builds for levy on banks

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:12 +0000

LONDON (Reuters) - Faced with rising debt and angry taxpayers, governments are edging towards imposing a global tax on banks to make them pay for financial sector bailouts costing hundreds of billions of dollars.