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Natural gas retreats on US stockpile data

4 hours 22 min ago
Nymex April Henry Hub fell 2.7 per cent following the latest US inventories data that showed a fall of 111bn cubic feet in stocks
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Markets mixed on China monetary jitters

4 hours 38 min ago
Global Markets Overview: China reawakens fears over monetary tightening, US data boost stocks
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Strong growth outlook lifts Swiss franc

4 hours 50 min ago
The Swiss franc rose to its highest level for a year against the euro as the central bank revised its growth forecast for the economy to 1.5 per cent
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Philips slides amid talk of Hologic bid

7 hours 26 min ago
France’s Lagardère, the world’s largest publisher of consumer magazines, suffered the steepest falls on the FTSE Eurofirst index after disappointing investors with poor earnings for 2009 and a weak outlook for the year ahead
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Vale turns up heat on iron ore prices

7 hours 48 min ago
The miner, has asked some of the world’s top steel producers to pay 80-100 per cent more for their ore supplies in 2010-11
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S&P issues warning over America’s top-tier rating

8 hours 12 min ago
US must adopt a credible medium-term plan to rein in fiscal spending, or face a downgrading
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Disparity in default rates of toxic assets

9 hours 1 min ago
At-risk European structured products should not have been tarred with the same brush as their US equivalents
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Push for clearing houses fails to move oil traders

9 hours 31 min ago
Appetite for risk points to oil traders’ renewed faith in the strength of their trading counterparties
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Is this the lull before the storm for US mortgages?

9 hours 51 min ago
What exactly is happening in the bowels of the American mortgage market? asks Gillian Tett
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Getco becomes NYSE Liffe US shareholder

10 hours 18 min ago
Getco, the Chicago-based market-making firm, on Wednesday became a shareholder in NYSE Liffe’s US futures exchange and received its first seat on the board of the futures industry’s main trade association
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Miners lead Footsie lower despite rise in metals prices

10 hours 22 min ago
The sector was under pressure after Chinese inflation hit its highest level since October 2008, adding pressure on Beijing to cool growth
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Nikkei surges despite weak growth data

10 hours 32 min ago
Tokyo stocks shrugged off lower-than-expected economic growth figures in Japan to reach a seven-week high but gains for other Asian markets were pared after a rise in Chinese inflation deepened worries over monetary tightening
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US stocks higher in late turnround

11 hours 36 min ago
US stocks regain ground after falling early in the session as investors digest mixed US economic data releases and warnings by the Chinese government that inflation will be a problem for its economy this year
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CBOE to take first step towards IPO

12 hours 30 min ago
The Chicago Board Options Exchange, the world’s last big member-owned exchange, filed an application with US regulators for an initial public offering
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Queensland picks banks for A$7bn rail IPO

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:24
The Queensland state government has appointed five banks to run a A$7bn share float of Queensland Rail’s coal and freight arm, expected to be Australia’s biggest listing this year
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