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MILTON KEYNES, England, Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- One week on from the Elections and after the recent reaction on Wall Street with the Dow Jones falling over 440 points in two days you may jump to the conclusion that four more years of Democrats is bad news for the stockmarket but according to trader and investor Vince Stanzione from Fintrader.net the stockmarket favours the Democrats. Stanzione crunched data going back to 1921 using the Dow Jones Industrial Average and found...

PARIS, October 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sales for the first nine months of 2012: up 2.9% to EUR32.5 billion Organic growth: -1.8%, of which -3.8% in Q3 Highlights: - Sales prices: up 1.9% over 9 months and 1.5% in Q3 - Sales volumes: down 3.7% over 9 months and 5.3% in Q3 - Q2 business trends confirmed in Q3, but negative impact of fewer trading days than in 2011 and of very strong 3Q 2011 comparatives for...

HONG KONG, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Highlights: For the 12 months ended 31 March 2012: Solid growth sustained in the Group's overall turnover for the reporting period, outperforming the market with accumulative year-on-year increase of 23.79%. With the benefit of new business expansion and business value enhancements facilitated by the transformation strategy, the Group's overall gross profit margin reached 7.55%.Profit...

New research from the University of New Hampshire suggests that China should establish a unified supervisory agency, similar to what is used in Singapore, to oversee its complex financial sector.The new research by Honggeng Zhou, associate professor of decision sciences, and Wenjuan Xie, assistant professor of finance, both at UNH, is presented in the working paper "Challenges for the Unified Financial Supervision in the Post-crisis Era: Singaporean Experience and Chinese Practice."...

GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Auto Parts and Accessories markets. Although the depressed automotive industry and economic activity restricted growth opportunities for auto parts, re-emphasis on product innovations, government subsidies and stimulus packages doled out is expected revive the battered automotive industry and in the process the market for auto parts and accessories, which remains a critical component in the automotive supply value chain. In...

NEW YORK and LONDON, July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown's book about the global economic crisis will be published by Simon & Schuster worldwide in November 2010. The book will be published by the company's Free Press imprint in the U.S., in the United Kingdom by Simon & Schuster UK, and by the company's publishing units in Canada and Australia. Gordon Brown's book will offer insight into the events that led to the fiscal downward spiral and the...

CHICAGO, May 10 /PRNewswire/ -- "By most measures, the financial crisis of 2008 was worse than that which precipitated the Great Depression or the bursting of the stock market bubble in Japan. The rate at which financial conditions deteriorated was particularly startling, with much of what was left of Wall Street as we knew it either failing or restructured in just seven days," says Diane Swonk, chief economist of Mesirow Financial, in her May edition of Themes on the Economy, located at...

U.S. markets turned higher Monday after closing lower in four of five trading sessions last week. Investors were beset by a flurry of government reports last week, including a Friday report that said unemployment rose from 9.7 to 9.8 percent on the loss of 263,000 jobs in September. In early afternoon trading Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average added 84.42 points, 0.89 percent, to 9,572.09. The Standard & Poor's 500 gained 1.18 percent, 12.08 points, to 1,037.29. The Nasdaq...

U.S. markets turned lower for the second consecutive day Friday after the Labor Department said unemployment rose in September to 9.8 percent.The department said 263,000 jobs were lost in the month. The report was issued the day after the Dow Jones industrial average lost 203 points on a spate of shaky government reports.The Commerce Department reported a spike in consumer spending prompted by a federal rebate program for car buyers. With the program concluded, automakers said vehicle sales...

U.S. markets turned sharply lower at the opening bell Thursday after closing out the third quarter in the previous session with encouraging returns. The third quarter ended with the Dow Jones industrial average up 15 percent from three months ago, the best quarter in 11 years. The Standard & Poor's 500 also gained 15 percent in the past 3 months. But a slew of government reports shook investors Thursday. The Commerce Department said consumer spending spiked in August thanks to the cash...