Zimbabwe's stock exchange is ditching the country's collapsed local currency and is trading in U.S. dollars.
The Tehran Stock Exchange's index has plummeted to its lowest level in five years.
Trading on Kuwait's hard-hit stock exchange was halted by court order on Thursday, a move cheered by many traders but criticized by the government and other investors who urged their privileged countrymen to stop acting like a "spoiled baby."
While markets across the world swoon, the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange has being seeing record gains as citizens turn to equities in a desperate attempt to protect their money from the country's stratospheric hyperinflation.
The London Stock Exchange opened a Beijing office Friday, stepping up its rivalry with U.S. markets to attract listings by fast-growing Chinese companies expanding abroad.
THE DAILY EVENT FUTURE BEAT...Sparing no expense in its determination to pique the interest of its demanding, easily distracted readership, the Daily Event has sent reporter Dale Arden hurtling at near light speed--and great personal risk--through a space/time wormhole into the f …
China, brittle? These sound like the words of a fumbling clown. Anyone who knows something about anything would say China is at its peak. As it has been since the Cultural Revolution. Just ask James Packer. Apparently capital flight isn't on Mr.
A stock exchange trader has shot himself on the trading floor in Brazil. Sao Paulo's Bovespa stock exchange says the 36-year-old man shot himself in the chest a couple of hours before markets closed in South America's biggest city.
About twenty years ago, I had an early-morning meeting with an investor who expressed some interest in funding a company I had co-founded. We had seeded the firm with about $5 million, a decent sum in those days, but that was not enough to keep a good idea afloat.
The misery worsened on Wall Street today, with stocks piling on the losses late in the session and bringing the two-day decline in the Dow Jones industrials to more than 875 points amid escalating worries about credit markets and financial sector.
British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and Chancellor of the Excheqor Alistair Darling have started a hastily arranged meeting with the Govenor of the Bank of England and Chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority, an the regulatory organisation for the UK's banks and lende …
Two and a half years ago, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne penned an editorial for The Wall Street Journal, warning that widespread stock manipulation schemes - including abusive naked short selling - were threatening the health of America's financial markets.
We've seen how negligent the Bush administration is with our money -- flushing billions on wasteful, mismanaged Iraq reconstruction and Katrina recovery projects.
Japanese stocks roared back Friday as investors welcomed Wall Street's overnight rally and news of a possible U.S. government plan to rescue banks from risky mortgage debt.
Global stock markets fell again, with early gains made on the unprecedented, $85 billion US government bailout of giant insurer AIG wiped out as investors pondered on the next corporation collapse.
It seems that Ron Paul predicted the current problems that we saw with our economy.
Crude oil prices plunged again today, falling below $91 a barrel at one point this morning as traders and investors worried about lower oil demand from a weakened economy and the prospect that troubled financial firms would curtail oil trading or liquidate positions.
The U.S. financial system was badly shaken Sunday by the failure of Lehman Brothers , the surprise takeover of Merrill Lynch and big asset sales by major insurer American International Group.
At June OMXH went down about -14.45% and the 1.7.2008 opened the month with -2.05% fall. Inflation, oil prices, food prices, higher interest rates, real estate business cooling etc.
In Monday Helsinki stock exchange opened with fall, as investors started to feel more nervous about the future. Wednesday was a positive day with about 3% raise, but all that was lost during the next day.
NYSE Euronext, the trans-atlantic exchange group, is shoring up its falling market share in US equity trading by revising its rules for "specialist" traders and ending its hybrid market of open outcry and electronic trading.
NYSE adopts Red Hat Enterprise Linux for $140 billion-a-day trading platform.
At 1PM ET Saturday, the sand in Microsoft's hour-glass ran out. Yahoo's (YHOO) three-week grace period is over, and all eyes are on Microsoft's next move.
And, as BoomTown wrote yesterday, so the war of attrition for Yahoo begins. Not with a bang, but a whimper. And so much whine, I am considering serving up a nice plate of cheese to all players.
IN early 2004 Eliot Spitzer was at the height of his powers as the sheriff of Wall Street, the highflying New York prosecutor who had set his sights on the cosy corporate kleptocracy that was pocketing millions from insider deals while ordinary investors went bankrupt.
It was the day that the fear factor took over. From Asia to South America, share prices tumbled yesterday as the world's investors gambled that a US recession was now inevitable. In London, the City endured its darkest day since the nadir of 9/11.
Australia is officially now in a bear market by quite a margin, but the real question is where do we go from here? The answer is...further down. Much further.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Transatlantic exchange NYSE Euronext (NYX.PA: Quote, Profile, Research)(NYX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it agreed to acquire the American Stock Exchange (Amex) for $260 million in stock to boost its options business, exchange traded funds …
By cutting rates by a total of one point since August, Bernanke has clearly moved toward a policy of stimulus.
OMX has gone down about 7% during the November and this day did not bring any hope with - 1,2% fall. Last time the falling was this bad in June 2006 when the courses hit the two years bottom. November has been almost downhill and the falling has cut off two months growth.