ProShares recently launched two new ETFs that target the spread between Treasury bonds and TIPS. Potentially, these funds could offer investors new ways to make bets on the breakeven inflation rate.
By Sudip Kar-Gupta LONDON (Reuters) - State-owned Royal Bank of Scotland paid out nearly a billion pounds in bonuses to staff for last year despite posting a fourth-quarter loss of nearly 2 billion pounds ...
MGM Resorts' fourth quarter 2011 adjusted loss per share worsened from the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 18 cents loss per share.
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- German banks chief hits out at Greek debt deal @ Financial Times
The deal eurozone leaders struck with private holders of Greek government bonds to impose deep cuts to the value of their holdings was "as voluntary as a confession to the Spanish Inquisition", ...
- Redrow earnings surge 80% @ Financial Times
Redrow welcomed back Steve Morgan, its founder, in 2009 to restore the housebuilder's focus on high-margin family homes. Mr Morgan has delivered an 80 per cent surge in pre-tax profits, led by strong sales ...
Everyone knows China's GDP has been climbing at a pretty astonishing rate for some time now. But the telecommunications industry is growing too, and at a conference today MIIT chief engineer Wang Xiujun ...
Fokado is one of the startups that has just graduated from the Jakarta Founders Institute two weeks ago. Fokado is trying to provide an alternative way for you to give someone a gift. So, rather than giving ...
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A new search optimization service for apps, AppSEO , is available in public beta today. The service is a web-based tool from the folks over at Japan-based AppGrooves , which some of our readers might be ...
Love live music gigs? So do I. I bumped into Clarence, founder of Bandwagon.sg , through a common friend during our event, Startups In Asia. Bandwagon, founded in October 2011, is a live music gig search ...
Jakarta-based game studio, Chocoarts , just raised a round of seed funding from several independent angels. The investment sum and the angels are undisclosed. With the new cash injection, Chocoarts’ co-founder ...
Some of the three tasks that most of us hate and/or tend to forget: 1. Going for a weekly jog, 2. paying monthly bills, and 3. buying diapers for kids. It’s hard to keep up with these routines because ...
China will not attend a global conference aimed at ending the deadly violence in Syria, the state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday. Citing foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei, Xinhua said Beijing would ...
- Big Tech, Obama And The Politics Of Privacy paidContent.org
The White House announced major privacy initiatives this week amidst a growing hubbub over how technology companies use consumers’ personal data. The news sheds light on both the privacy debate and on ...
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits last week held at the lowest level since the early days of the 2007-2009 recession, signalling that ...
By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone's economy is heading into its second recession in just three years, while the wider EU will stagnate, the EU's executive said on Thursday, warning that ...
Over at The Economist's View, we learn the good news that "there is substantial space for rising wages." And you know what that means. That means it's time for you to ask for a raise. You've ...
Lamar's 4Q11 EPS was 7 cents, up from a loss of 8 cents reported in 4Q10 and above the break-even Zacks Consensus Estimate. In FY11, EPS was 9 cents versus a 44 cent loss reported in 4Q10 and the Zacks ...
By Maytaal Angel and Harpreet Bhal LONDON (Reuters) - The London Metal Exchange (LME) board met on Thursday to examine non-binding bids for the world's biggest marketplace for industrial metals, facing ...
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Market Data
- Currencies
- Commodities
Commodities Name Price Change % Chg 1,780.60 +10.60 +0.60% 
35.17 +0.93 +2.72%
203.48 +2.20 +1.09%
3.8295 -0.00 -0.01%
106.220001 -0.06 -0.06%
- Bonds
Bonds Treasury Yield (%) Yield Change 0.90 +0.04
2.03 +0.02
3.17 +0.02
MARKET MOVERS
- Most Actives
Most Actives Name Price Change % Chg 1.615 -0.05 -3.00%
0.96 +0.01 +1.59%
1.39 -0.04 -2.80%
0.77 -0.00 -0.65%
1.345 -0.08 -5.61%
- % Gainers
% Gainers Name Price Change % Chg 0.153 +0.02 +15.04%
1.97 +0.20 +11.30%
0.475 +0.04 +10.47%
0.122 +0.01 +8.93%
1.465 +0.11 +7.72%
- % Losers