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Financial Market News from the Financial Times

  1. Global equities extend losing streak
    Growth assets are shunned as investors fret about the future of the eurozone and the global economy, sending yields on German Bunds lower
  2. Faltering start for the new Facebook
    Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
  3. Spain’s pain becomes Europe’s big fear
    Fears about contagion from Greece and worries about the health of Spanish banks have shifted the focus of the crisis from Athens to Madrid
  4. Haven rush drives bond yields to lows
    Possibility of Greek euro exit has rattled markets and caused investors to buy ‘safer’ assets, pushing UK and German borrowing costs to lows
  5. Resource stocks mirror global economy
    Decline of groups involved in supplying essential raw materials for business show how investors really feel about the global economy’s direction
  6. We hate the expression ‘repression’
    It is an ugly phrase, but ‘financial repression’ is the reason that many investors are buying government bonds for a return-free risk
  7. Facebook fails to meet high expectations
    S&P 500 financials index loses over 6% to make it the worst performing sector on the week, led by JPMorgan as its deals with fallout from $2bn loss
  8. Russian crop damage worries lift wheat
    Concerns over the past few weeks about limited rainfall in southern Russia push US benchmark prices for the grain to an eight-month high
  9. Euro remains close to annual lows
    Single currency ceases sell-off but remains below $1.27, while Aussie and New Zealand dollar fall to fresh lows on global economic concerns
  10. ITV weakens as FTSE 100 drops
    Banks and mining stocks lead the wider market to its sharpest weekly fall since September, with the benchmark index down 5.5% for the week

Global Economic News from the Financial Times

  1. Spain hit by rise in bad bank loans
    Value of bad loans held by banking sector increased a third during the past year to €148bn and accounted for 8.4% of their entire loan portfolios
  2. Global equities extend losing streak
    Growth assets are shunned as investors fret about the future of the eurozone and the global economy, sending yields on German Bunds lower
  3. Brazil stimulus fails to raise growth
    Contraction makes Brazil’s growth second slowest in Latin America and comes as Asia’s major emerging markets, China and India, are also decelerating
  4. G8 leaders urged to focus talks on growth
    Barack Obama says the summit of the world’s leading economies will focus on ways to promote growth in Europe and backed fiscal consolidation efforts
  5. China linked to ‘economic espionage’
    The Pentagon report says the country will continue to be an ‘aggressive and capable’ collector of sensitive US technological information
  6. Briton to head development bank
    Sir Suma Chakrabarti will be the first non French or German president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
  7. China property prices extend decline
    Home prices in 46 out of 70 Chinese cities fell in April, indicating that prospects for a rebound remain distant for a key driver of growth
  8. Faltering start for the new Facebook
    Glitches delayed the opening of trading and underwriters had to intervene to prevent the group’s shares falling below the $38 price set on Thursday
  9. Chinese desert Hong Kong art market
    Sales from mainland buyers halved at Sotheby’s spring auctions, which CEO Kevin Ching blames on Beijing’s tightening of access to credit
  10. Iran helps Syria defy oil embargo
    A tanker attempts to evade detection by switching flags and ownership, as it assists the Assad regime in bypassing international sanctions

Market News from MarketWatch

  1. Auto Review: 2012 BMW 328i
  2. Shawn Langlois's London Sketch: Chelsea’s run shakes this expat’s foundation
  3. Market Snapshot: U.S. investors hang on Europe after bruising week
  4. Market Extra: Facebook IPO’s rocky open to get SEC review
  5. IPO Report: Facebook IPO fails to ‘pop’ in rough debut
  6. Weekend Investor: Facebook debut sets pace for tech IPOs to come
  7. John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook IPO: Perfect, in a strict sense
  8. Canadian Markets: Canadian stocks slide to third weekly loss
  9. Financial Stocks: Nasdaq shares lead financial stocks lower
  10. Market Snapshot: Dow, S&P drop for 3rd straight week

Business News from Reuters

  1. Wall St Week Ahead: The market is oversold, but major signs say "sell"
  2. Historic Facebook debut falls flat
  3. Dewey to consider bankruptcy filing: source
  4. Obama pledges tough enforcement of Wall Street reforms
  5. Manulife, Metlife submit bids for ING Asia sale: sources
  6. Solow lawsuit over Citigroup disclosures dismissed
  7. Analysis: JPMorgan to be haunted by change in risk model
  8. Morgan Stanley made big bet on Facebook
  9. Under pressure, Chesapeake cuts director pay
  10. CFTC opens probe into JPMorgan trading loss: source

Commodities News from the Financial Times

  1. Russian crop damage worries lift wheat
    Concerns over the past few weeks about limited rainfall in southern Russia push US benchmark prices for the grain to an eight-month high
  2. Resource stocks mirror global economy
    Decline of groups involved in supplying essential raw materials for business show how investors really feel about the global economy’s direction
  3. Repsol cancels LNG shipments to Argentina
    Spanish group scraps nine deliveries of liquefied natural gas worth $360m in wake of YPF seizure over alleged ‘contract violations’ by Buenos Aires
  4. Vale hires advisers for oil and gas assets
    Brazilian miner hires Citibank and Scotiabank with a view to either selling the assets or spinning them off into a new company
  5. Graff Diamonds sets IPO share price
    The jewellery producer and retailer will market shares for its $1bn Hong Kong listing at HK$25-HK$37, with its founder Laurence Graff set for a $290m windfall
  6. Tehran agrees to meet IAEA chief
    Yukiya Amano to meet Tehran’s nuclear negotiator as hopes rise for concessions after four years without agency access to sites
  7. G8 leaders urged to focus talks on growth
    Barack Obama says the summit of the world’s leading economies will focus on ways to promote growth in Europe and backed fiscal consolidation efforts
  8. LME’s suitors’ bids pass £1bn mark
    The IntercontinentalExchange, Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing and CME Group have all promised to preserve the historic bourse’s open outcry trading pit
  9. Mood sweetens as New York holds sugar dinner
    The fall of the real and reports of rain in Brazil hampering the harvest, thus raising expectations of delayed exports, lifts gloom
  10. Japan pushes Asia gas price close to high
    Spot prices set to hit record highs this summer as Japan abandons nuclear power and supplies decline after a LNG pipeline was blown up in Yemen
 
 

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