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A dearth of freshly positive market catalysts leaves risk assets struggling to keep forward.
The FTSE All-World index is retreating by 0.4% from the previous session’s near eight-month peak. The global gauge had surged by almost 24% ever since the October low, helped by on-going central bank largesse. It helps ease the tensions in the eurozone [...]

Germany has decided to close 8 of its 17 nuclear reactors after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan last year. The nuclear phase-out, high wholesale natural gas prices, as well as economic slowdown in Germany left deep scars on the country’s largest utility. As a result, the German energy group–Eon has fallen to its first [...]

The growth-focused assets go on taking a beating after pessimistic comments from the US Federal Reserve as well as evidence of slowing factory activity in China and Europe. Along with these factors, the prospect of a global economic recession accelerated a flight to safety and a plunge in the Asian stock markets.
The MSCI Asia Pacific [...]

Groupon and Zynga, two most closely watched consumer internet companies which had filed plans in time to go public in early autumn, are looking to capitalize on the wave of investor excitement for consumer internet companies this year. However, now the two company have pulled back from going public as expected by experts on the [...]

Investors tend to avoid penny stocks due to different reasons, such as high risk and high market volatility, etc. However, in spite of the elevated levels of volatility, penny stocks are a good bet. With the high revenue growth, trading penny stocks is very exciting. Facing the fluctuation in the gold market, it is a [...]

In the first half of the year, SVG Capital saw the value of its investment portfolio increase by more than expected, due to a further rebound in companies owned by Permira, the private equity group in which SVG invests. After announcing a net asset value growth of a quarter by the end of June, SVG’s [...]

The Chicago-based online coupon company–Groupon has given up its controversial accounting measure in a revised prospectus for its IPO and reported both staggering revenue growth and net losses for quarter 2 in 2011.
After filing IPO on Wednesday, the deal-of-day business with 3 years experience in practice was criticized for adopting a metric called as “adjusted [...]