Business News

Thu, February 02, 2012

China publishes full list of IPO applicants for 1st time

By Samuel Shen and Kazunori Takada

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's securities regulator has for the first time published a full list of Chinese companies ...

A worker uses a mobile lift to clean the windows of the headquarters of Swiss commodities trader Glencore in Baar near Zurich

Thu, February 02, 2012

Glencore nearing deal to combine with Xstrata

(Reuters) - Glencore International is nearing an agreement to combine with Xstrata in a deal that may value the combined entity at 52 billion pounds ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Analysis: Talk of Japan Inc's demise may be premature

By Tim Kelly

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's punch-drunk corporate sector looks to be out for the count, having been knocked off its feet by ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Analysis: Middlemen take toll on China agricultural profits

By Langi Chiang and Nick Edwards

BEIJING (Reuters) - Want a slice of the billions of dollars China spends each year on farm subsidies? Become ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

JPMorgan wows Wall Street with Facebook IPO win

By Nadia Damouni

NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co surprised Wall Street by winning a leading role in Facebook's much anticipated public offering ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

U.S. accuses China of instigating plot against DuPont

By Dan Levine

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Federal authorities successfully kept a U.S. businessman in jail on Wednesday ahead of his trial on charges ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

New Sony CEO to confront scale of turnaround task as loss looms

By Edmund Klamann

TOKYO (Reuters) - The incoming chief of Japan's Sony Corp will confront the enormity of his task to turn around the ...

Flag hangs on the wall of the JP Morgan company stall on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York

Wed, February 01, 2012

JPMorgan slashes $710 million Lehman bankruptcy claim

(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co has agreed to drop almost all of a $710 million claim against Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc's bankruptcy estate, freeing ...

Wed, February 01, 2012

Schwab client-waiver spurs FINRA complaint

By Joseph A. Giannone and Suzanne Barlyn

(Reuters) - Wall Street's own watchdog filed a complaint against Charles Schwab Corp on Wednesday accusing the ...

An employee writes a note on the message board at the new headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park

Wed, February 01, 2012

Factbox: The world's largest social network

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook filed on Wednesday to raise a targeted $5 billion in a hotly anticipated initial public offering, setting the stage for ...