CONNECTICUT COMPANIES - Banks lead Europe stocks to 6-year closing low - International Herald Tribune CONNECTICUT COMPANIES - Banks lead Europe stocks to 6-year closing low - International Herald Tribune

Friday, January 23, 2009

CONNECTICUT COMPANIES - Banks lead Europe stocks to 6-year closing low - International Herald Tribune

LONDON : European shares ended lower on Friday, retreating for the twelfth time over the past 13 sessions, led lower by financials as fears of more hefty losses in the sector deepened. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top European shares in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks mostly rose Friday, as the Dow Jones industrials briefly turned positive and the Standard & Poor's 500 index and the Nasdaq composite rose. The S&P was helped by strength in energy and financial stocks as oil prices rose and in Dow Jones News >

SAO PAULO (Dow Jones)--The Brazilian real closed slightly weaker against the dollar Friday as investors sought safe havens as the shadow of global recession looms. The real ended at BRL2.339 per dollar on the Brazilian Commodities and Futures in Dow Jones News >

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Government Accountability Office says the Veterans Affairs Department is still lowballing budget estimates to Congress to keep spending down. A report released Friday finds the VA's strategic plan covering 2007 to 2013 uses cost in Dow Jones News >

LONDON (Dow Jones) -- Plagued by a severe banking crisis, the British economy contracted during the final three months of 2008 at its fastest quarterly pace in nearly 29 years, government data revealed Friday. Gross domestic product shrank by 1.5% in in Dow Jones News >

MUMBAI, India (AP) - Funding arrangements to meet cash expenses at beleagured Satyam Computer Services Ltd. will likely be finalized by Wednesday, and a new chief executive will be selected next week, the company's new government-appointed board said in Dow Jones News >

Market Check: Dow Jones up 14 pts, or 0.16%, Nasdaq up 28 pts, or 1.9%, S&P 500 up 10 pts, or 1.2% The Dow is now trading in positive territory. This afternoon's surge is being lead by the commodities complex in Dow Jones News >

NEW YORK : Wall Street is staging another big retreat as corporate earnings reports fall short of estimates and the British economy officially slipped into a recession. The Dow Jones industrial average is down 210 at 7912 in the opening minutes of in Dow Jones News >

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