HOUSTON COMPANIES - Banks Lift European Shares - Wall Street Journal HOUSTON COMPANIES - Banks Lift European Shares - Wall Street Journal

Friday, February 6, 2009

HOUSTON COMPANIES - Banks Lift European Shares - Wall Street Journal

LONDON -- European stock indexes mostly traded in positive territory early Friday, buoyed by stronger mining and bank stocks and some upbeat earnings news. The Dow Jones Stoxx 600 index was up 0.5% to 195.4. London's FTSE 100 index was up 0.1% at in BUSINESS NEWS >

Shares in Julius Baer tumbled as much as 40 per cent on Friday after an anonymous whistleblower sent a letter to regulators about alleged securities trading irregularities at the Swiss bank. Julius Baer quickly dismissed the subject of the letter as in BUSINESS NEWS >

MUMBAI: Shares of fraud-hit IT giant Satyam Computer climbed Friday, a day after it announced a new chief executive and said it had lined up funds to help tide it over a cash crunch. The company jumped as high as 6.81 percent or 3.15 rupees to an in BUSINESS NEWS >

Mumbai, Feb 06: IT education solutions provider Educomp, which is under the scanner of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, on Friday said that shares belonging to the promoters have not been pledged with any entity as of today. In a filing to the Bombay in BUSINESS NEWS >

Feb 6 (Reuters) - Mineral explorer and producer Vane Minerals Plc said on Friday its Commercial Director Matthew Idiens bought 1.0 million shares in the company in two tranches. Idiens bought 750,000 shares at 2.875 pence each on Feb. 4 and 250,000 in BUSINESS NEWS >

HONG KONG, Feb 6 (Reuters) - The following is a snapshot of the Hong Kong foreign exchange and money markets in late trade on Friday. Close Morning Previous Close At 0907 GMT At 0319 GMT At 0912 GMT HK$ SPOT 7.7543/45 7.7538/39 7.7536/39 FORWARDS in BUSINESS NEWS >

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