Market Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pfizer, the world’s largest drugmaker, reported that its second-quarter profit more than doubled, due largely to a favorable currency exchange rate and lower costs.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Sterling lost ground on Thursday after a sharp fall in UK consumer spending heightened fears that the country was headed into a recession.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rise in US mortgage rates has prompted a sharp decline in the number of refinancings according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sterling advanced on Wednesday after the minutes of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee meeting revealed a three-way split on interest rates.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
The dollar remained mired close to recent lows after warning from US corporates re-ignited fears that earnings gloom was not limited to the financial sector
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- Merck & Co. reported higher second-quarter earnings late Monday, with a favorable foreign currency rate contributing about 5% to sales. For the quarter ended June 30, Merck posted net income of $1.77 billion, or 82 cents a share, compared with $1.68 billion, or 77 cents a share, for the same quarter last year. Excluding various items, Merck would have reported adjusted earnings...
TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
Trans Atlantic currency investors are snapping up British pennies and reselling them for $1.02 (51 pence) by the millions - leading to a shortage of pennies in the UK - and making a mockery of currency exchange rates.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
The dollar eased as a rebound in oil prices and worries about the health of the US financial system weighed on the currency
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
The dollar drifted on Friday as traders digested results from Citigroup and waited for Wall Street's reaction to those numbers and a $9bn writedown from Merrill Lynch
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
STOCKHOLM, July 18 (Reuters) - Swedish engineering firm Sandvik missed expectations for quarterly pretax earnings and order bookings citing lower nickel prices and unfavourable currency rates, sending its shares down sharply.
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Dcurrency - Firefox add-on that displays the currency exchange rate in your statusbar.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
New US housing starts rose an unexpected 9.1 per cent in June, but economists cautioned against interpreting the jump as evidence of a bottoming of the US residential property market
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
The dollar softened on Thursday after a strong showing in the previous session, pushed on to the back foot by news sovereign wealth funds were cutting their dollar holdings
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
John Authers says the sterling likely to come down against the dollar as overnight rates pricing cuts
Digital Media Wire (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
London - Apple (NASD: AAPL) will not reduce the cost of music downloads at its U.K. iTunes Store, as it has said it would do in January, to bring parity to the cost of downloads between the U.K. store and other iTunes Stores in Europe, Billboard reports. Currency exchange rates have since fluctuated to the point that the cost of music on iTunes is now essentially the same in the U.K. as it is in the...
