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London 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 [...]

As 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 [...]

Fashion brand–Prada has raised $2.1bn via an initial public offering on the Hong Kong stock exchange. However, the shares were priced at the lower end of a target range, which raise less than the maximum amount of $2.6bn wanted.
Prada will be the first Italian company to list in Hong Kong as it looks to tap [...]

In recent years, funds that investedn North America have done little to capture the attention of the UK investors. Consistently poor returns have implied that other sectors,including absolute return and global emerging markets, are just as popular in spite of the fact that the US remains the world’s largest economy.
However, it is not just modest [...]

A growing list of international companies, including car maker Volkswagen, financial data provider Reuters, HSBC and Standard Chartered, are now looking to sell their shares in China–the world’s most populous country.
Recently, the world’s largest soft drinks maker–Coca-Cola turned to be the latest multinational company unveiling plans to sell shares in mainland China. According to the [...]

Following the recent launch of UK’s first Facebook-style social network for the private investors, there is some evidence indicating that the conservative and pedestrian world of investment has evolved rapidly into the new era for online investment ever since the day of the pin-striped provincial stockbroker.
The launch coincides with an upsurge of investment activity. Created [...]

Sitting on your hands may not in plaudits among the bold and the brave. However it has proved a winning formula for US stock market investors this year. A sharp jump in oil prices has propelled energy companies to a second succesive uarter of impressive gains, making them the best performing sector in the S&P [...]