Financial News
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Macquarie lines up joint venture
22 Jan 2006
source:
thisismoney.co.uk
Tom McGhie, Mail on Sunday22 January 2006 THE Australian bank mounting a £1.5bn hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange has held talks with an American market to create a joint derivatives operation should its offer succeed. WANT TO KNOW MORE? REPORT: LSE attacks Aussie bid FREE SERVICE: Free Company reports READER SERVICE:Sharedealing POLL: What will happen to the economy ... |
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LSE shares peak as consolidation looms
22 Jan 2006
source:
today.reuters.co.uk
By Louise Heavens LONDON (Reuters) - Shares in Deutsche Boerse, Euronext and the London Stock Exchange hit new peaks on Friday as investors bet consolidation of the exchanges will happen sooner rather than later. By midmorning, shares in Deutsche Boerse were trading up 2.4 percent at 98.35 euros, having hit an all-time high of 99.90 euros, valuing the exchange at just under 11 billion euros (7.5 billion pounds). Shares in rival pan-European exchange Euronext were also at a record high, up 2.3 ... |
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UPDATE: LSE Climbs On Nasdaq Weighing Bid Reports
22 Jan 2006
source:
morningstar.com
LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Shares of The London Stock Exchange hit a new record high Friday following reports that the Nasdaq Stock Exchange is considering bidding for it. A story in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter reported a deal is far from imminent, but said executives at the Nasdaq Stock Market(NDAQ), the second-largest U.S. stock market, have ... |
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Late sell-off drags FTSE lower
22 Jan 2006
source:
ft.com
London succumbed to a late sell-off on Friday, underlining investors’ concerns that shares were getting overvalued. // A late sell-off on the German Dax 30, rumoured to be caused by a ‘fat-finger’ trade,was enough to spook investors into taking cover. The FTSE 100 finished down 20.8 points or 0.4 per cent, slipping forty points in the last 90 minutes. The FTSE 250 index briefly touched 9,000 b ... |
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Dow tumbles 200 points on earnings gloom
22 Jan 2006
source:
ft.com
Wall Street endured its worst one-day session for almost three years on Friday as a sharp jump in the oil price and badly received figures from Citigroup, General Electric and Motorola robbed the market of what was left of its early-year gains. // The Dow Jones Industrial Average slumped more than 200 points or 2 per cent to 10,666.99, its worst single-day performance since March 2003. The broad ... |
