Search results for ‘stock exchange’
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UK and China launch stock exchange tie-up
In London, Chancellor Philip Hammond said he’d had an “extensive discussion” with the visiting Chinese Vice-Premier about Hong Kong, but was more keen to talk up close trade ties.
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Saudi oil giant could gain access to London Stock Exchange
Human rights concerns? Not part of my job. That’s according to the financial regulator who’s deciding whether to change the rules, potentially allowing oil giant Saudi Aramco to float on the London Stock Exchange. But Andrew Bailey of the Financial Conduct Authority told MPs that he had met the Saudi firm’s Finance Director earlier this year.…
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FCA under fire over Saudi Aramco Stock Exchange listing
£1.5 trillion – the value of a listing from the Saudi oil company Aramco on the London Stock Exchange. Nice money if you can get your hands on it. But the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is under fire for allegedly bending those rules to enable the listing. There are critics, but others who point out…
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Poundland: from stock ’em high to stock exchange
Discount shop Poundland is to be listed on the London Stock Exchange. Our Digital and Culture Editor Paul Mason explains the secret of the shop’s success.
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Suspects admit London Stock Exchange bomb plot
Four radical islamists admit to plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange as part of a campaign of al Qaeda-inspired attacks London in the run-up to Christmas 2010.
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London Stock Exchange merger with Canada’s TMX
The London Stock Exchange is merging with Canada’s TMX, which operates the Toronto Stock Exchange, in a deal which will create one of the world’s largest trading platforms.
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World stock markets hit by share volatility
US stock markets are continuing to fall, ending a week which has seen the biggest global sell-off of shares for six years. And there have been losses across Europe’s stock exchanges too, including London, where the FTSE index of leading shares closed half a per cent lower. So when will the volatility calm down?
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Chinese stocks swing for a second day
Asian markets experience a turbulent start to Tuesday as Chinese stocks tumbled for a second day, following ‘Black Monday’.
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Barclays reviews foreign exchange trading as profits fall
Barclays is cooperating with regulators reviewing alleged manipulation of currency rates as it reports profits from its investment banking arm fell by half in the third quarter.
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Coronavirus: shares plunge in worst day for markets since financial crisis
It’s been the worst single day fall since the 2008 financial crisis with stock markets around the world tumbling- Our Washington Correspondent Siobhan Kennedy is inside the New York Stock Exchange.
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Shares in Twitter – told in tweets
As Twitter shares float on the New York stock exchange, the twitterati transmitted the event… through tweets, of course.
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‘Frankenstorm’ forces 60m to evacuate, 3m without power
Super storm Sandy ripped through 11 states closing subways, schools and stock exchanges, leaving floodwater in Atlantic City, collapsed buildings in New York and downed power lines.
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Matt Frei reports from the centre of Frankenstorm
Hurricane Sandy has forced 60,000 to evacuate on the US east coast, closing financial markets including the New York Stock Exchange and paralysing transport networks. Matt Frei reports.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg marries in secret
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg marries his long-term girlfriend in secret, the day after the firm lists on the Nasdaq stock exchange and was valued at $117bn.
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Arrests over Occupy London protest
Police arrest five people after a group of anti-capitalist protesters set up a temporary camp outside the London Stock Exchange.
