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Reuters – The yen eased from a 15-year high on Wednesday on a report that Tokyo was considering weakening its currency, while world stocks fell for the fifth day on concerns over the global economy sliding back into recession.
Reuters – Shareholders may soon get more power to shake up corporate boardrooms in the U.S. after the financial crisis exposed glaring weaknesses in how companies were managed.
Reuters – Two Spaniards were charged with insider trading in Potash Corp before BHP Billiton announced its $38.6 billion hostile bid for the Canadian fertilizer company, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday.
AP – Federal regulators have charged two Spanish investors with trading on secret information about BHP Billiton PLC’s bid to acquire Potash Corp.
AFP – US authorities on Tuesday froze the assets of two Spanish traders and charged them with insider trading linked to a multibillion dollar hostile bid by Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton for Canada’s Potash Corp.
AP – ABN Amro, the state-owned Dutch bank, reported a euro968 million ($1.23 billion) loss for the first half of 2010 on Thursday, blaming costs arising from decisions by European Union competition authorities, as well as its own merger, legal and restructuring expenses.
AP – The weak job market has been deteriorating even further.
AP – World stock markets mostly rose Thursday, helped by late gains on Wall Street and more strong German data, though apprehension over a slowing U.S. economy and its impact on the global recovery capped the advance.
Reuters – Stock index futures signaled a flat to slightly higher open for Wall Street on Thursday, following a late rebound in the previous session, with the S&P 500 futures up 0.1 percent, while the Dow Jones industrial average futures and Nasdaq futures traded flat by 0857 GMT (4:57 a.m. EDT).