12:00AM | anthony hughes, new york | The Australian Financial Review
Friday's February US retail sales report was much better than expected, even though you might have logically thought that snowstorms during the month would have held back sales.
12:00AM | MATTHEW SALTMARSH | The Australian Financial Review
The Swiss banking giant UBS has stepped up its lobbying to pass a treaty with the United States that would resolve a dispute over tax-evading clients.
12:00AM | reuters | The Australian Financial Review
Janet Yellen, eyed by President Barack Obama for the number two post at the Federal Reserve, is a more nuanced thinker than her short-hand label of "policy dove" would suggest.
12:00AM | EDWARD WYATT | The Australian Financial Review
A US appeals court has upheld a Federal Communications Commission rule that forbids cable companies that also own programming channels from refusing to allow competitors to also offer those channels.
12:00AM | JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ | The Australian Financial Review
February was hardly an ideal month for retailers: snow storms blanketed many parts of the country, and car dealerships faced an uproar over safety concerns.
12:00AM | reuters | The Australian Financial Review
The outcome of a drive to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna, prized as a delicacy in Japan, is too close to call before UN talks this weekend that will test the world's ability to protect dwindling fish stocks.
12:00AM | Anthony Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
The Obama administration is stepping up efforts to promote US exports amid signs that the rebound in US trade is running out of steam.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
At least three major aftershocks rocked central Chile minutes before new President Sebastian Pinera was sworn in on Thursday to take charge of a country still reeling from a devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
12:00AM | Linda Sandler | The Australian Financial Review
JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup helped cause the illiquidity that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the bankrupt bank's examiner has reported.
12:00AM | Jack Ewing | The Australian Financial Review
Makers of luxury cars are reporting profits as sales begin to stabilise.
12:00AM | James Kanter | The Australian Financial Review
The European Union rebutted criticism by the United States of its plans to tighten the rules on hedge funds.
12:00AM | Tony Walker | The Australian Financial Review
The US is barrelling toward establishing widespread sanctions against Iran, but Europe, the Middle East, and especially China, have different thoughts and interests when it comes to the Islamic republic.
12:00AM | Colleen Ryan | The Australian Financial Review
With populist politicians beginning to emerge in China, just as it prepares a change of its top leadership, it may be that a new generation will change the style of leadership in the people's republic.
12:00AM | Seth Mydans Bangkok | The Australian Financial Review
Thailand's seemingly unending political crisis is likely to reach another moment of tension this weekend with huge opposition rallies that organisers say they hope will paralyse the city and bring down the government.
12:00AM | the economist | The Australian Financial Review
Rahm Emanuel's enemies blame him for trimming the President's ambitions. His defenders say it is a pity Obama did not heed his warnings against overreach. As to the inevitable question of whether Emanuel will keep his job, if health reform survives, so will he.
12:00AM | Economist | The Australian Financial Review
Greece had a budget deficit of 12.7 per cent of GDP in 2009. It has a record of dodgy accounting. Its own leaders acknowledge how dire its fiscal situation is.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Dentsu, the top Japanese advertising agency, plans to launch a service distributing digital editions of a variety of magazines to Apple's iPad tablet computer.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Major Japanese automakers saw their Chinese unit sales rise year on year in February, with even recall-plagued Toyota Motor recording a 30 per cent increase.
12 March 2010 | MICHELINE MAYNARD | The Australian Financial Review
In the wake of the recall of millions of Toyotas, federal safety regulators plan to examine a variety of features on automobiles, and explore whether data recorders should be mandatory.
12 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
The European Union has rebutted criticism by the United States of its plans to tighten the rules on hedge funds, even as Britain sought to water down the regulation to safeguard its own financial sector.
12 March 2010 | CYRUS SANATI | The Australian Financial Review
Vikram S. Pandit, Citi's chief executive, has laid out ambitious targets for growth, saying the bank's return on assets should rise to 1.25 to 1.5 per cent in the near future.
12 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
Regulators have told Bank of America's chief executive, Brian T. Moynihan, and other executives that the largest US bank by assets must become "much smaller".
12 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
General Motors will pay back roughly $US8 billion in debt to the United States and Canada before June and could go public in a way that would allow taxpayers to make a profit.
12 March 2010 | SEWELL CHAN | The Australian Financial Review
The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, hoping to break a months-long logjam on the biggest overhaul of financial regulations since the Depression, will unveil his own proposal on Monday.
12 March 2010 | Keiko Ujikane | The Australian Financial Review
Japan's economy expanded less than initially estimated in the fourth quarter as companies slashed spending on plant and equipment and a measure of prices declined.
12 March 2010 | Chris Dolmetsch | The Australian Financial Review
Mexico's Carlos Slim beat Bill Gates and Warren Buffett for the top spot on Forbes magazine's annual list of billionaires, becoming the first person from outside the U.S. to lead the rankings in 16 years.
12 March 2010 | Vincent Del Giudice | The Australian Financial Review
The US budget deficit widened to a record in February as the government boosted spending to help revive the economy.
12 March 2010 | Colleen Ryan | The Australian Financial Review
China's economy put in a powerful performance over the first two months of the year with factory output and retail sales both strong.
12 March 2010 | Anthony Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
Unemployment rose in most US states in January, but several of the country's most populous states managed to add jobs in another sign the labour market is starting to recover.
12 March 2010 | Jill Treanor | The Australian Financial Review
Britain's biggest banks are being subjected to new stress tests by the Financial Services Authority, the sector regulator, to ensure they can withstand another four years of difficult economic conditions.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
BP, Europe's largest oil and gas company, will pay Devon Energy Corp $US7 billion ($7.5 billion) for assets in Brazil, the Gulf of Mexico and Azerbaijan.
12 March 2010 | Dylan Griffiths | The Australian Financial Review
HSBC Holdings' Swiss private bank said it suffered "serious data theft" affecting about 15,000 Swiss-based accounts.
12 March 2010 | Ron Nixon | The Australian Financial Review
Royal Dutch Shell and Ingersoll-Rand this week became the latest major corporations to announce that they would cease or cut back business operations in Iran.
12 March 2010 | Hames Kanter | The Australian Financial Review
European antitrust regulators took a step yesterday toward approving an expanded alliance between British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia after the airlines offered to give up landing and takeoff slots at airports in London and New York.
11 March 2010 | Anthony Hughes, New York | The Australian Financial Review
With today's gains, the S&P 500 Financial Sector Index has clocked up a nine straight days in the green.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Brazilian mining giant Vale SA has proposed a more than 90 per cent increase in iron ore prices in negotiations with Japanese steelmakers for fiscal 2010, The Nikkei learned Wednesday.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
An international trade ban on Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna is edging closer to reality as support for it continues to grow.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Shareholder rewards from perennially earnings-challenged companies pose the dual dangers of harming corporate finances and blinding investors to the actions of management.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
While striving to introduce its own rules, Japan is keeping a close eye on the discussions taking place in the U.S. and Europe over how far new regulations on credit default swaps (CDS) should go.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Japan's proposed legislation for reducing global warming gas emissions is close to being finalised, but the government continues to work out differences of opinion among the ruling bloc parties and ministries about specific details, including the use of nuclear power.
11 March 2010 | reuters | The Australian Financial Review
News Corp will start charging for content for its British newspapers on the web in the next weeks or months.
11 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
Connecticut's attorney general sued Moody's Investors Service and Standard & Poor's on Wednesday over ratings that they issued on risky investments.
11 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
The private equity fund Lone Star plans to resume selling a $US3.9 billion majority stake in Korea Exchange Bank, KEB said, in what would rank as South Korea's biggest banking deal to date.
11 March 2010 | JAMES KANTER | The Australian Financial Review
British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia have offered to give up landing and takeoff slots at airports in London and New York to win over antitrust regulators.
11 March 2010 | DAVID LEONHARDT | The Australian Financial Review
For anyone who cares about medical costs - which is to say anyone who cares about the take-home pay of American families or about the budget deficit - President Obama's health reform plan is a terribly mixed bag.
11 March 2010 | DEALBOOK | The Australian Financial Review
The American International Group will soon implement its new "forced ranking" system to determine bonuses and rate employee performance.
11 March 2010 | CYRUS SANATI | The Australian Financial Review
Terra Industries says it has deemed a new $US4.7 billion takeover offer by CF Industries Holdings superior to a $US4.1 billion deal it had already signed with Yara International of Norway.
11 March 2010 | Anthony Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
More signs of modest improvement in the US jobs market have emerged, but with the unemployment rate at 9.7 per cent, the Federal Reserve is widely expected to maintain its easy monetary policy stance.
11 March 2010 | Nicola Clark Paris | The Australian Financial Review
Burgeoning cost overruns at two of its biggest aircraft programs pushed European Aeronautic Defense & Space into a steep loss for 2009. But EADS, the parent company of Airbus, expressed confidence yestrerday (wed)that new financing for its A400M military transport plane and a recovery in demand for commercial aircraft would help restore it to profitability this year.
11 March 2010 | Anthony Hughes | The Australian Financial Review
US regulators are pushing for tighter regulations to rein in the $US36 trillion ($39.5 trillion) credit default swap market but have stopped short of joining Europe in calling for an outright ban on speculative trading.
