MADRID—Bankia SA, which just months ago was hailed as a success of the country's banking consolidation, on Friday will outline its plans to comply with Spain's new bank-cleanup rules—standards that have raised some doubts about the lender's ...
More than a century ago, Eastman Kodak Co. got into the camera-making business with the slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest." Soon, the buttons are going to be made by someone else.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Portfolio diversification is fairly straightforward. Different kinds of assets — stocks and bonds, for example; maybe commodities and real estate as well — lower volatility and deliver more consistent returns than ...
PARIS—Alcatel-Lucent SA said Friday it swung to an annual profit for the first time since in six years and posted positive cash flow in the fourth quarter, causing shares to soar in early trade.
BANGALORE -- Satyam Computer Services Ltd. said Friday it agreed to acquire an about 15% stake in Dion Global Solutions Ltd., marking the software exporter's first acquisition since it started recovering form one of India's worst ever ...
NEW YORK—Program trading in the week ended Feb. 3 amounted to 32.2% of New York Stock Exchange average daily volume of 1.83 billion shares, or 588.6 million program shares traded per day.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — It’s beginning to look as if it might be time to make a big bet on small-company growth stocks. Yes, the economy is starting to show signs of improvement and, as most investors know, that’s usually a good time to ...
A new variety of asset-allocation mutual fund had a banner year in 2011. But it is unclear whether risk-parity funds, also known as balanced-risk funds, are really a better mousetrap.
When publicly traded companies miss analysts earnings expectations, shares usually slide. But when it comes to publicly-traded private-equity firms, that reaction's not a given.
MADRID (MarketWatch) — The headaches besetting globally oriented investment managers are constant, but the pain essentially has two sources: Slow economic growth and the European sovereign debt crisis.
The California State Teachers' Retirement System, or CalSTRS, has awarded Melbourne-headquartered investment manager Industry Funds Management, or IFM, with an infrastructure mandate of up to US$500 million to invest in a diversified ...
Short-selling fell at the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market during the second half of January. In the exchanges' latest twice-a-month statistics, this time for the period ended Jan. 31, the number of short-selling positions ...
Shares drifted up Thursday as investors took stock of a Greek refinancing deal and continued improvement in the U.S. labor market. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 6.51 points, or 0.1%, to 12890.46. The Standard & Poor's 500-stock ...
Last fall, as worries about Europe's banks mounted, Davide Serra fretted over the fate of Algebris Investments LLP, his $700 million hedge-fund firm.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — After more than a year of negotiations, state and federal government officials on Thursday announced a record housing settlement of more than $26 billion with five of the country’s biggest banks over foreclosure ...