- 123jump.com Staff
- 08 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in Japan edged higher for the day and for the week as crude oil drops and investors set aside worries of earnings of export companies. Toyota Motor reported a decline in earnings but left its annual earnings outlook unrevised. The oil refiner, Inpex Holdings net profit for the first quarter rose 29% from a year ago to 49 billion yen on 41% rise in sales. Shipping carriers fell more than 4% for the second day in a row after a drop in freight rate index.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 11 Aug, 2008
- New York City
UK stock indexes rose fractionally after Wolseley led retailers higher and crude oil prices fell despite the simmering conflict between Russian and Georgia. The conflict if widens may disrupt energy supplies in Europe. The conflict if widens may disrupt energy supplies to Germany and Italy. The producer price index rose 10% in the year to June. Ireland home prices fell 0.6% in June from May and fell 5% from a year ago.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 08 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in the U.S. rallied and in Europe edged higher after a steady decline in crude oil prices. Oil dropped 4.5% today and down 20% from its peak of $147 a barrel. Agriculture commodities, gold, silver and copper declined as well. Fannie Mae reported a loss on asset write down and cut its dividend by 80%. Royal Bank of Scotland reported a loss in the first half. Schroder profit declined 28%. Peru led the decliners in Latin markets. Telecom Italia profit fell 12% in the second quarter.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 08 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in London rose fractionally after a steady decline in crude oil prices lifted airlines, retailers and transportations companies. However, miners fell after commodities prices declined. Of the 102 FTSE 100 stocks 72 rose, and 30 declined. British Airways led advancers in the index shares with a rise of 8.14% after crude oil prices for September delivery plunged 3.3% to $116.10 a barrel. Schroder profit fell 28% and RBS reported its first quarterly loss in four decades.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 08 Aug, 2008
- New York City
U.S. stocks rallied after crude future fell 3% and gold declined. The drop in oil sparked a rally in transportation and consumer stocks. U.S. stocks rose after crude oil futures fell 3.2% or $3.69 to $116.33 and gold declined $12.70 to $865.20. Domtar Corp, the second largest paper producer reported better than expected earnings and forecasted higher profit margins. Hertz Global Holdings fell as much as 8% after it reported lower and earnings forecasted weak results for the rest of the year.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 08 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Fannie Mae, the troubled housing agency reported worst than expected results and indicated deepening problems in the housing market and for the company. The lender reported a loss of $2.3 billion or $2.54 a share compared to net income of $1.95 billion or $1.88 a share. Fannie also slashed its dividend 80% to 5 cents from 25 cents a share. In the UK, Royal Bank of Scotland reported its first loss in four decades after it wrote down
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
U.S. stock benchmarks fell on large loss at AIG and other financial companies, weaker than expected earnings from consumer related stocks and mixed same store U.S. retail sales. Global financial companies exceeded $500 billion cumulative losses. Same store sales in July fell but sales at discounters rose. Barclays rose after it reported 35% drop in profit. In Japan, Toyota and Kubota reported profit declines. Shipping lines in China fell on the fourth weekly decline in freight rate index.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks Hong Kong edged higher but in Shanghai fell a fraction. Financial stocks were mixed after a sharp loss at AIG but better than expected earnings at Standard & Chartered. Airlines, commodities and shipping lines fell. Shipping lines fell after Baltic Dry Index fell for the fourth week in a row. China Cosco, CSCL and CSD dropped nearly 6%.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in Japan fell as worries related to banking sector earnings rose. Losses at financial institutions in Japan increased above 1 trillion yen and are likely to climb higher. Chuo Mitsui Trust Holding first quarter profit fell 52%. Machinery order in June rose. Kubota first quarter revenue fell 2.5% and earnings declined 16.5%. JAL net loss in the quarter shrank to 3.4 billion yen.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
The Bank of England left its key rate unchanged at 5% and ECB left its key rate at 4.25%. UK is facing slowing housing market and manufacturing and service sectors and retail sales are falling as well. However, food and energy prices are rising. The economies in Europe and UK are slowing down but inflation pressures are expected to rise. The comments of the ECB chief were interpreted as further hikes in the rates are less likely and may be lowered by the end of the year.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
U.S. stocks fell on further weakness in financial companies and a drop in earnings from Toyota, Martin Marietta Materials, Cardinal Health, Atlas Air Worldwide, Fortress Investments Group. Retailers reported mixed same store sales with Target sales declining and Wal-Mart issuing a conservative outlook for August.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 07 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks traded sharply lower after a loss at AIG, weak retail sales outlook and Toyota Motor and Allianz earnings drop. AIG, the largest insurer reported wider than expected loss and may be forced to raise capital as its portfolio losses mount. Earlier, Allianz SE, the largest insurer in Europe reported lower earnings on losses at its banking unit Dresdner Bank. Wal-Mart Stores fell after it offered a cautious outlook for August sales.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 06 Aug, 2008
- New York City
The U.S. stocks closed higher after trading lower for the most of the day. Cisco reported 10% rise in sales and offered outlook that investors found optimistic. Freddie Mac reported sharply lower revenue and a loss that was three times more than the estimates. The troubled mortgage lender is looking to raise $5 billion. The loss dragged financial stocks lower. Crude oil fell after the release of weekly inventories data. Asian and European stocks closed mixed.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 06 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in Shanghai gained as crude oil prices fell. Hong Kong markets were closed on impending tropical storm. China increased its loan quotas for regional banks for small and medium companies after the credit markets tightening affected lending to the sector. Oil refiners, airlines and chemical companies rose after the recent drop in crude oil future prices. Commodity stocks fell after gold prices plummeted 2.4% to $886.10 an ounce. Zjin Mining Group Co. fell 2.7%.
- 123jump.com Staff
- 06 Aug, 2008
- New York City
Stocks in Tokyo rallied tracking the gains in the U.S. markets. Benchmark index rose 2.6% and broader index gained 2.4% on the hopes that exports to the U.S. will be sustained. Mitsubishi UFJ first quarter earnings fell 66% from a year ago to 51 billion and total net assets dropped 3% to 9.3 trillion. Sony agreed to acquire 50% stake in the joint venture Sony BMG that it does not own for $900 million and cash in the balance sheet of the venture.