By Reuters
When it comes to hiring top commodity traders, what goes around comes around. Wall Street, after years of poaching the best and brightest from specialized commodity firms, is losing the war to keep the essential traders who know how to arbitrage copper or store crude . (2:21 am)
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CITIGROUP, BARCLAYS, BNP PARIBAS, DEUTSCHE BANK, GOLDMAN SACHS, MORGAN STANLEY
By Aireview
To read some of the reports of the January economic data from China, you'd be excused for thinking that a crisis is on the way as imports and exports growth slowed sharply in January and inflation rose. (9:16 pm)
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CHINA, MERRILL LYNCH, CRUDE OIL, EUROPEAN UNION, COPPER, INVESTMENT
By Comsec
The head of China´s $410 billion sovereign wealth fund, China Investment Corporation, said European government bonds were not an ideal investment for long-term investors. (6:03 pm)
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CHINA, BARACK OBAMA, GOLD, DOW JONES, CITIGROUP, FTSE
By IBTimes AU
Stocks added to gains and hit session highs in afternoon trading, buoyed by the adoption of austerity measures by Greece's Parliament. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was recently ahead 82 points, or 0.6%, at 12884. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock index advanced 10 points, or 0. (5:41 pm)
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CHINA, GOLD, DOW JONES, GOLDMAN SACHS, FTSE, HANG SENG INDEX, JAPAN, GOLD, COPPER, BARCLAYS, BNP PARIBAS
By Reuters
Stocks rose at the open Monday, with the S&P 500 recouping nearly all of its declines from the previous session, as Greece's parliament approved strict financial reforms needed to obtain its latest international bailout package. (11:46 am)
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BARACK OBAMA, GOOGLE INC., DOW JONES, APPLE INC., CITIGROUP, SAMSUNG
By Reuters UK
If the World Bank is correct, 2012 will see the second slowest year of global economic growth in a decade, at a level consistent with a world recession that, like the 2008/2009 financial crisis, would not spare Asia. (11:21 am)
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CHINA, MERRILL LYNCH, MANUFACTURING, EUROPEAN UNION, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA