US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pressed India’s Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday for reassurance that New Delhi welcomes foreign capital and remains committed to boosting bilateral trade and investment, following concerns connected to India's newly proposed retrospective tax measures.
HSBC Holdings PLC is planning to sell yuan-denominated bonds listed on the London Stock Exchange, a move that will make the City the first place outside mainland China or Hong Kong to do business in the currency.
African Barrick Gold raised the mineral resource estimate for its Nyanzaga project in Tanzania, and said the project had the potential to become its next mine in the country.
Although leaders of the military coup in Mali appear to be rounding up and jailing potential opponents among politicians and policymakers, they seem to be trying to minimize disruptions to the economy and daily life, leaving in place government ministers in charge of finance, trade and industries.
Shares of London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE) soared more than 8 percent Friday morning, after the namesake bourse operator agreed to buy a majority stake in LCH.Clearnet, one of Europe’s largest clearing houses, for €463 million ($614.6 million).
Swiss mining giant Xstrata PLC said Thursday it will pay $500 million in cash to Talisman Energy Inc. for its Sukunka hard coking coal deposit in northern British Columbia, Canada.
Russian precious metals miner Polymetal is eyeing acquisitions in Kazakhstan, Armenia, Ukraine, the Russian Far East and Urals, chief executive Vitaly Nesis told Moscow's RBC Daily in an interview published on Thursday.
British anti-capitalist protestors are being evicted from the Occupy encampment outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in the early hours of Tuesday by police and bailiffs.
Shares of C&W closed up 44.51 percent to £28.54 ($45.02) on the London Stock Exchange.
NYSE Euronext signaled it would shift focus to faster-growing areas like supplying computer systems and information from trading, as the U.S. exchange looks to an independent future following the collapse of a takeover by Deutsche Boerse.
Shares of London-based Hochschild Mining closed Wednesday up 5.91 percent to £523.50 ($829.24), solidly outpacing the rise in the price of silver.
Four British men admitted to planning a bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange, saying that they were inspired by American-born al-Qaeda radical Anwar al-Awlaki.
Italy and Britain called on the European Union on Wednesday to promote steps to boost economic growth and not focus solely on austerity to bring down the debt levels that have thrown the single currency into crisis.
Russian steelmaker Severstal said on Monday that a planned London listing of its Nord Gold mining unit would proceed after investors representing 10.6 percent of the share capital in the business participated in a share swap.
At least two serious potential bidders have emerged so far for the London Metal Exchange (LME) from 15 suitors who expressed interest in the world's biggest metals marketplace, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
Shares of silver mining companies rose on Tuesday as the price of the metal jumped, outperforming the rest of the market.
European stocks rose to their highest in two weeks on Friday, tracking Wall Street gains as the U.S., the world's biggest economy, showed further signs of recovery, especially in the labor market.
Robert W. Baird downgraded its rating on shares of RSC Holdings Inc. (NYSE: RRR) to neutral from outperform following United Rentals Inc.'s (NYSE: URI) intention to buy RSC Holdings for $18 per share.
Regus specializes in short-term, flexible office leasing. The company has expanded to over 92 countries with 1,200 locations, and with the soft economy, it is poised to continue growth.
Mwana Africa reported a narrower first-half loss, driven mainly by a jump in production at its Freda Rebecca gold mine in Zimbabwe, and said it continued to be in talks with the government there about the issue of turning over a 51 percent stake to locals.
Gold miner Polyus Gold's plans for a premium listing on the London Stock Exchange have been delayed, after an investment committee chaired by prime minister Vladimir Putin said it would not consider approval for the move until 2012.
Jefferies downgraded its rating on shares of Logica Plc (London Stock Exchange: LOG) to underperform from hold and lowered its price target to 60 pence from 85 pence.
