Indian Shares End Higher; State Bank Of India Gains On Strong ResultsWall Street JournalMUMBAI (Dow Jones)–Indian shares closed higher Friday, rebounding from a more than four-month intraday low, helped by a rally in bank shares after better-than-expe…
BloombergGap First-Quarter Profit Beats Analysts' EstimatesBloombergGap Inc. (GPS), the largest US specialty- apparel retailer, posted first-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates after sales for the period advanced to the highest level i…
May 22, 2011
With the exception of the FTSE 100, with its modest 0.38% gain for week, all of the major world markets in this series lost ground. The DAX was finished in last place, down 1.84%, with the BSE SENSEX second-to-last with a 1.11% loss. Th…
May 8, 2011
This past week was a downer across major world markets. The Nikkei 225 is the one index showing a fractional gain, but it was closed three of the last six market days. The DAX was down fractionally, but the other markets finished deeper …
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Immelt wrote in an op-ed today in the Washington Post that Obama asked him to helm the newly renamed President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. The group will reach out to labor and business leaders to serve “as a c…