An investor scratches his head as he looks at the stock price monitor at a private securities company in Shanghai. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index rose 5.62 points, or 0.3 percent, to close at 2206.57. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Eugene Hoshiko

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market built on the previous session's strong gains Wednesday as financials perked up following a well received earni...

NEW YORK (AP) -- The major stock market indexes have staggered to their lowest levels in more than a decade, pulled down by investors' rapidly waning confidence. The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index are at the lowest point since 1997, succumbing to growing worries about a recession that has no end in sight.

Most financial stocks were pounded even as gove...

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Australian markets may be in for a roller coaster week as investors digest another flurry of company results, while worries the US government may move to nationalise troubled banks may buffet financial stocks.

The Sydney Futures Exchange's SPI futures index ended tradi...

With the equity markets testing new bear-market lows as part of a five-month run that has seen the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index fall by 38%, it can be disorienting to discover a stock moving aggressively in the opposite direction.

That is exactly the situation with (TSYS), an Annapolis, Md.-based diversified technology company that not only was one of 2008's top stocks, gaining 130...

The Square Mile is awash with gossip about Daniels' future following his admissions to the Treasury Select Committee earlier this month about the lack of due diligence before the HBOS takeover. One senior source told the Sunday Herald the Lloyds chief executive would have to be "at the top of his game" to survive the week when the bank reports its annual results on Friday.

In what is lik...

Dilip Patel, left, and Glenn Carell, both of Bear Wagner Specialists, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Henny Ray Abrams

TORONTO - Tumbling financial stocks sent markets sharply lower midafternoon Friday with the Dow Jones industrial average plumbing depths it hasn't seen in more than six years as investors keep selling amid pessimism about the global...

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10:54GMT 20Feb2009-Centaur Media falls on profit warning

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Centaur Media Plc (CAU.L) is down 26 percent after hitting a record low as the business publisher says it expects full-year results to be significantly below forecasts as advertising revenue slow...

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The JSE remained in negative territory by noon on Tuesday taking direction from weaker European markets but a weak local currency prevented the local bourse from falling deeper into the red.

By noon, the JSE all share index had lost 1.35 percent, with resources easing 0.59 percent. However, platinum miners edged up 0.74 percent and gold miners gained 3.64 percent.

Banks gave up 2.89...