Shares of Imperial Tobacco were down nearly 2.5% on Wednesday following a story in the Guardian suggesting that the Queen…
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Deutsche Post DHL’s fourth-quarter revenue expanded 2% year over year on an organic basis (excluding foreign exchange), roughly in line…
In what’s likely to be its final earnings release before swallowing Xstrata whole, Glencore continued to emphasize the “resilience” of…
HSBC reported attributable net income of USD 13.5 billion for 2012 (USD 5.3 billion in the second half), down 17%…
Carlsberg has offered to purchase another 30.3% stake in Chongqing Brewery Company (CBC) 600132 for DKK 2.65 billion (USD 461…
Covidien’s fiscal first-quarter results slightly exceeded our forecast, but we’re cognizant of several unexpected benefits that helped top-line growth in…
London Stock Exchange Group LSE reported a 6% yearon- year increase in revenue–which the exchange operator calls total income–to about…
Michelin reported EUR 5.4 billion in revenue for the third quarter (it only reports full financial results every six months),…
On Wednesday, Barclays announced that it had hired Hector Sants as head of the bank’s new compliance and government relations team, a position that had not previously existed.
Analysts were pleased with this news, as it may mean that Barclays is finally going to take compliance more seriously and, in doing so, will avoid the hefty regulatory fines and reputational damage that have plagued it in recent years. Sants certainly is qualified–he served as chief executive of the Financial Services Authority until June– and Barclays has set up a structure that should give him some real power.
In a move to retreat from the U.S. market, Aviva is selling its U.S. life and annuities business to Athene…
Vodafone reported weak first fiscal half revenue due to currency issues. The firm’s reported revenue declined 7.4% year over year…
Renewable Energy Corporation’s third quarter results were unsurprisingly awful. Solar-related manufacturing remains severely distressed, and REC’s module business remains fundamentally noncompetitive,…