The Financial Stability Board’s list of global systemically important banks places HSBC Holdings and Barclays in lower risk categories and raises the risk category for Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America. Citigroup and JPMorgan […]
While speaking at separate events Monday, Brazil’s finance minister and central bank president explained that fiscal reform is necessary to pull it out of its worst recession. With the economy forecast to shrink 3.4% this […]
China’s Anbang Insurance Group is negotiating to pay Blackstone Group as much as $2.3 billion for a portfolio of residential properties in Japan, people familiar with the matter said. The transaction would be the biggest […]
Next year will be a big one for stock buybacks, Goldman Sachs Group analysts say, predicting that Standard & Poor’s 500 index companies will increase repurchases by 30%, to $780 billion. Analysts from Wells Fargo […]
Japan and Russia have agreed to each contribute about half toward a $902 million investment fund. Japan hopes expanded economic cooperation will help with negotiations regarding ownership of islands that are claimed by Russia and […]
Talks aimed at reunifying Cyprus broke up after two days of meetings between Greek Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades and Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci. “Despite their best efforts,” the two were unable to agree on […]
Russia is deploying short-range ballistic missiles to its western European enclave of Kaliningrad as Vladimir Putin threatens “counter-measures” against NATO deployments. Meanwhile, reports suggest that members of the European Parliament will vote today on establishing […]
OPEC experts have made progress on confirming details of plans to cut output, in the first day of a two-day meeting of the group’s High-Level Committee. While some said Iran still had reservations about the […]
While the above-linked document registered earlier this month mainly targets printed circuit boards and other structures, the one issued to Apple today defines broader relation to cellular telephones, media players and computers. Formation of displays […]
The Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) account for Jack Dorsey was briefly suspendedovernight, but the CEO later attributed its disappearance to an “internal mistake.” Users can deactivate their accounts, but only the company can suspend them. It’s been […]
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