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Bloomberg Business "Brexit: The Marmite of politics": The shadow of Brexit continues to loom large over U.K. markets as the consequences of the pound's slide — with sterling falling below $1.215 in morning trading — are thrown into sharp relief by a dispute between r...
El Economista “Las reformas cambiaron el diálogo con el Fondo Monetario” La urgencia de reformas estructurales y la dependencia del petróleo ya no son temas en el marco de la reunión del FMI y el BM. Washington, DC. Las calificadoras pusieron a revisi...
Bloomberg Business -Markets take a tumble: Markets on Tuesday were hit with a familiar cocktail of concerns over lower oil prices, the health of banks, central bank impotence, and a weakening economy following the release of mediocre U.S. auto sales and lukewarm consumer...
Bloomberg Business - Stocks: The S&P 500 was little changed at 2,173.61 at 9:32 a.m. in New York, two points from an all-time high. The benchmark index has climbed for five straight months, the longest since 2014. S&P 500 companies posting results this week include Pfize...
Bloomberg Business -BP profit slump: BP Plc posted a 45 percent slump in earnings, saying adjusted profit dropped to $720 million from $1.3 billion a year earlier — below analysts' expectations. Continuing low oil prices and "significant pressure" on refining margins h...
Bloomberg Business -U.K. PMIs plunge: It is one month since the Brexit vote tomorrow, which means data from the U.K. are catching up with the post-vote economy. This morning, a composite Purchasing Managers’ Index estimate published by Markit Economics fell to 47.7 for...
Bloomberg Business -Good news for the U.K.: Amid all the Brexit gloom, there were a couple of pieces of good news for the U.K. this morning. In the three months through May, the unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent, its lowest level since 2005. While this data predates ...
Bloomberg Business -May day: Later today U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will head to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen, who will then ask Theresa May to form a government. She is expected to start naming her new ministerial team this evening, wi...
Bloomberg Business -Japan stimulus bets: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s conservative coalition is set for a super-majority in the upper house of parliament following the weekend election. A win would allow his administration to push ahead with constitutional refo...
Bloomberg Business -Markets mixed: Ahead of the U.S. jobs data world equity markets are mixed. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 0.6 percent overnight as the strengthening yen kept pressure on Japanese stocks. In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index was 0.5 percent higher at 5:...