Archive for the ‘stock market’ Category
Asian Stocks Continue to Slide
Friday, September 23, 2011 7:24 No CommentsThe 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 Cools on IPO Amid Market Volatility
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 7:30 No CommentsGroupon 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 [...]
Get Involved in Penny Stock Trading
Saturday, August 20, 2011 5:52 No CommentsInvestors 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 [...]
SVG Portfolio Gets Boost from Permira
Monday, August 15, 2011 10:12 No CommentsIn 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 [...]
Groupon Revises Its IPO Prospectus
Saturday, August 13, 2011 16:53 No CommentsThe 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 [...]
Stock Market Crash 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 22:18 No CommentsLondon shares looked set for the 8th successive day of big losses when the FTSE 100 index plunged 200 points or by 4% on the open to stand below 5,000 for the first time ever since July 2010. After the panic-driven slump, UK’s stock market regained some composure. This was turned around by [...]
Oil and Stock Prices Plummet
Thursday, June 23, 2011 13:50 No CommentsAs weak data from the US, China and the eurozone sparks fears that the economic recovery is grinding to a halt, a global market sell-off is now under way.
Worrying manufacturing figures from the eurozone and China as well as a shock rise in US jobless claims have heightened concern which is caused by the gloomy [...]



