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Surprising jobs report sends stocks reeling
Stevens Point Journal - 4 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- A dour report on job losses in June sent stocks sharply lower Thursday. Major stock indexes fell more than 2.6 percent after the government said the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high.

Jobless rate is awful, but it's not a good stock market barometer WNEP-TV 16

Jobless data sends stocks reeling; Dow loses 223 Kiplinger

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Shanghai plans own "Wall Street bull"
Reuters UK - 3 Hours ago
BEIJING (Reuters) - Wall Street may be down on its luck, but China's growing business hub, Shanghai, plans to install its own version of the Street's famed charging bull statue, casting in metal its hopes

Wall Street bull charging to Shanghai People's Daily Online

Bigger Wall Street bull planned for Shanghai TheStar.com.my

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Stocks fall in Europe and Asia
Los Angeles Times - 4 Hours ago
Reports on retail sales and the service industry add to concern that the first global recession since World War II will persist. Bloomberg News Stocks fell in Europe and Asia on Friday, extending the

Stocks fall in Europe, Asia after reports Washington Times

Europe stocks fall led by utilities, energy, mining London South East

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Toyota to mass produce plug-in hybrids from 2012 -Nikkei
Reuters - 7 Hours ago
TOKYO, July 4 (Reuters) --Toyota Motor Corp (7203. T) plans to start mass producing plug-in hybrid vehicles in 2012, with a projected first-year output of about 20,000 to 30,000 units, the Nikkei business

Toyota, Honda hybrids narrow drop in Japan auto sales China Post

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Commodities

Steel prices remain steady in thin trade
The Hindu - 96 Minutes ago
New Delhi (PTI): Steady conditions developed in the wholesale steel market today with most of the prices after moving in a tight range on some support, ended at previous closing. Arrivals and offtake Add Comment

TSX closes slightly higher in slow trading
DOSE - 79 Minutes ago
TORONTO - Canadian stocks inched slightly higher Friday in a slow day of trading marked by the Fourth of July holiday long weekend south of the border. With U.S. markets closed, The S&P/TSX composite

Teck equity sale pushes TSX to higher close Conde Nast Portfolio

Friday's markets close: TSX closes slightly higher in slow trading Vancouver Sun

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Bank of Korea Likely to Buy Gold for 1st Time in 11 Years
Donga.com - 10 Hours ago
The Bank of Korea has not purchased gold for 11 years, but is expected to go on a gold buying spree, as the worldâ??s central banks have bought the commodity since the global economic erupted in September Add Comment

Commodities: Is it time to buy copper and nickel again?
Guardian Unlimited - 11 Hours ago
The rising price of metals has boosted commodity funds. Photograph: Peter Ginter//Science Faction The price of oil went below $40 a barrel, but is now around $70. Copper collapsed from $9,000 a tonne Add Comment

Corporate finance

Applied corporate finance and valuation
AME Info - 9 Hours ago
Login to edit this event Event Description During the 3 days, you'll explore the latest strategies to help successfully tackle any complex valuation. Enhance your existing skills today. This programme Add Comment

MphasiS names new CFO
Hindu Business Line - 4 Hours ago
MphasiS has appointed Mr Ganesh Murthy, the worldwide Finance Director of Global Delivery Application Services at Hewlett Packard, as its Chief Financial Officer effective July 15. Mr Murthy takes over Add Comment

Massive interest in SEBâ??s bond issue
Swedish Wire - 10 Hours ago
Swedish bank SEBâ??s bond issue was oversubscribed by 50 percent as more than 150 investors subscribed to the issue. Related news: â?¢ SEB lands fat profit after debt buy-back SEB, Swedenâ??s second-biggest

New Issue-SEB prices 750 mln stg 2014 bond FinanzNachrichten.de

SEB plans 5-yr stg senior benchmark bond -IFR Forbes.com

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RP mulls $500-M global bond issue
ABS-CBN News - 5 Hours ago
MANILA - The Philippines will likely issue $500 million worth of global bonds should the government decide to go back to the overseas debt market this year, National Treasurer Roberto Tan said on Friday.

Philippines says mulls $500 mln global bond issue Forbes.com

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IPO

Recent IPO Filings
Investors Business Daily - 5 Hours ago
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 4, 2009 (IPO Monitor. Com via COMTEX) Filing Est. Amt Date Company Name (Mil.) ------ ------------ -------- 06/30 ZST Digital Networks Inc. (Zhengzhou, ) $2.2 Supplies digital and optical Add Comment

Emaar MGF may float IPO
MENAFN - 6 Hours ago
(MENAFN - Khaleej Times) Emaar MGF, a joint venture between Emaar Properties and India's MGF Developments, could be looking to raise at least Dh3 billion (Rs40 billion) through an initial public offering, Add Comment

Plan to allow foreign firms to be listed in China gathers steam as FDI dips
China Post - 8 Hours ago
With the goal of building Shanghai into a world-class financial hub, the central government is showing renewed interest in inviting foreign-funded firms to be listed in the country. Deputy Commerce Minister

China Planning To Allow IPOs By Foreign Firms Nikkei Net Interactive

China allows foreign banks to access yuan for SARs trade China Economy

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Share Microfin Plans IPO; To Close Rs 250 Cr PE Round In A Month
AltAssets.net - 6 Hours ago
Hyderabad-based Share Microfin Ltd, the second largest microfinance institution (MFI) in India, is planning to go for a public offering in next two years. â??In less than two years, we can for an IPO,â? Add Comment

Fed watch

N.Y. Fed's Chief Backs Preemptive Crisis Moves: Fed Should Get Ahead of Asset Bubbles,
Washington Post - 4 Hours ago
The Federal Reserve should break with past policy and try to identify and deflate asset bubbles before they can damage the U.S. economy, New York Federal Reserve President William C. Dudley said. While Add Comment

Sympathy for Greenspan
The New Nation - 7 Hours ago
J. Bradford DeLong In the circles in which I travel, there is near-universal consensus that America's monetary authorities made three serious mistakes that contributed to and exacerbated the financial Add Comment

Banks trim borrowing from Federal Reserve
Ledger-Enquirer - 9 Hours ago
WASHINGTON â?? Banks borrowed less from the Federal Reserveâ??s emergency lending facility over the past week and cut back on other programs designed to ease the financial crisis, encouraging signs that

Banks trim borrowing from Fed's emergency program Tuscaloosa News

Federal Reserve Advises Bank Customers on California Registered Warrants Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Rates hinge on Fed exit strategy
Reuters - 15 Hours ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. interest rates in the second half will likely move on perceptions of how the Federal Reserve handles paring its burgeoning balance sheet and ending emergency funding programs, Add Comment

Stockwatch

Qatar lending falls by QR15.5bn
AME Info - 4 Hours ago
Qatar's bank lending has fallen by QR15.5bn during the first quarter of this year, 7% lower than the previous quarter, ending in December 2008, The Peninsula has reported. According to the Qatar Central

Qatar- Bank lending falls by QR15.5 billion in Q1 MENAFN

Qatar- Bank lending falls by QR15.5b in Q1 MENAFN

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GDP to grow faster in Q2: former banker
CHINAdaily - 8 Hours ago
China's GDP growth in the second quarter of this year will be higher than that of the first quarter, and the 8-percent growth target set for this year is likely to be achieved, a former central bank governor Add Comment

Troubled Wall Street faces critical earnings season
China Post - 6 Hours ago
NEW YORK -- Wall Street's hopes for a rapid recovery from recession, muddled by disappointing U.S. labor market data, faces a new test in the coming week with the looming corporate earnings season. The Add Comment

Mergers & acquisitions

China fund to buy $1.5 bln stake in Canadian miner
AFP via Yahoo! - 5 Hours ago
BEIJING (AFP) China's sovereign wealth fund said it would buy 1.5 billion dollars worth of shares of the Canadian mining company Teck Resources Ltd. The purchase by the China Investment Corp would amount

China to spend 100 bln yuan buying equipment for grassroots medical institutions People's Daily Online

China to spend 100 billion yuan buying equipment for grassroots medical institutions Xinhua News Agency

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Proposal would have state take over city pension plan
Philadelphia Inquirer - 4 Hours ago
A proposal circulating in the legislature could result in a state takeover of Philadelphia's municipal pension plan, and officials from the city and the pension board are raising alarms. In response to Add Comment

FCStone will merge with International Assets Holding Corp.
TMC Net - 4 Hours ago
(The Kansas City Star - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- FCStone Group Inc., a Kansas City commodities risk management company, is merging with International Assets Holding Corp.,

Sisal signs the new SuperEnalotto agreement, after winning an international tender World Lottery Association

International Assets signs agreement to merge with FCStone Group TMC Net

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Plan to buy, spruce up local CTV stations goes sour for Shaw Communications
Canoe Money - 7 Hours ago
TORONTO - When executives from Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX:SJR.B) paid a visit to CTV's local A Channel stations last month, it quickly became glaringly apparent this wasn't to be the high-profile deal Add Comment

Economics

Thatcher rebate deal 'was a defeat' - PA
Guardian Unlimited - 4 Hours ago
Margaret Thatcher's famous budget rebate 'victory' in Europe 25 years ago was actually a defeat which left her broken and in tears, it has been claimed. French economist Jacques Attali was a senior adviser

National News: Thatcher rebate deal 'was a defeat' Coventry Telegraph

Thatcher's European rebate demand was defeat Guardian Unlimited

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UPDATE 1-China cenbank chief warns of risks in stimulus push
CNBC - 5 Hours ago
BEIJING, July 4 (Reuters) - China's massive economic stimulus plan has launched some projects that are wasteful, possibly making it hard for investors involved to repay bank loans, China's central bank

China central bank chief warns of risks in stimulus push Khaleej Times

China statistics chief sees no inflation risk this year Business Spectator

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Indian markets crawl as investors await budget
The Hindu - 3 Hours ago
Mumbai (IANS): Indian equities markets went up and down in volatile trading last week, but ended close to where they were a week ago, as investors waited anxiously for the budget to be unveiled Monday. Add Comment

Recession and APD forces airlines to cancel routes
Telegraph - 4 Hours ago
A sharp decline in passenger numbers has resulted in airlines abandoning up to 200 routes in the past year, according to new figures. Further cuts are expected before the rise in Air Passenger Duty in Add Comment



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