Stocks News

Morning sunlight shines on the front of the New York Stock Exchange July 29, 2008.

The deadline has passed for British bank HSBC's 3.1 billion pound offer to buy control of Korea Exchange Bank from the U.S. private equity firm Lone Star Funds, HSBC said on Thursday, raising the prospect that ...

U.S. stocks were mixed Thursday with techs holding their own, while the blue chip indices fell.

Massachusetts security regulators accused Merrill Lynch of fraud Thursday for allegedly promoting the sale of auction-rate securities when they knew the investments were becoming increasingly unstable.

Shares in retailer The Warehouse tumbled when the stock exchange opened today, following a Court of Appeal decision preventing takeover bids by Woolworths and Foodstuffs.

Alan Schwartz, the Bear Stearns chief executive who was forced to sell the investment bank to JPMorgan Chase & Co., will leave the banking company at the end of the summer, according to an internal memo ...

Deutsche Bank AG reported a bigger- than-estimated 2.3 billion euros of debt writedowns in the second quarter and Chief Executive Officer Josef Ackermann said he ``remains cautious'' on the rest of the year.

The Australian share market closed firmly in the black for the second consecutive day, driven by a positive US lead and higher prices overnight for copper, nickel and oil.

National Australia Bank Ltd. promoted Cameron Clyne to chief executive officer, replacing John Stewart after swelling credit-market losses triggered the worst share slump in 21 years.

The wife of ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was found guilty Thursday of evading millions of dollars in taxes and sentenced to three years in prison.