US stocks began the second half of the year on a positive note with shares in prominent food and drink manufacturers leading the market highe ...

London equities started the first day of the third quarter with gains, helped by signs of optimism from housebuilder Taylor Wimpey ...

European Central Bank says it had no objections to Germany’s “bad bank” plan, which will allow banks to offload toxic assets from the balance sheets ...

Asian stock markets had a mixed start to the quarter with conflicting signals from the Tankan survey and Chinese data ...

The UK bourse sweeps aside a tariff structure introduced only nine months ago, moving to a system of volume discounts as it attempts to stem an erosion of market share ...

But equities are some way off the highs of earlier in March after investors booked profits from earlier gains ...

Disappointing US consumer confidence data offer a timely reminder of the headwinds facing the global economy ...

Fundraising highlights the differing fortunes between those companies that have maintained investor confidence and those under a cloud ...

To single-count or to double-count trade volume, that is the question! Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous double counting, or to take arms against a sea of over-inflaters. And by opposing, end them? Ah, Shakespeare! You clearly were ahead of your time! Though double-counting (counting shares from bot...

From the press release issued this morning: NYSE… has reduced the time it takes to execute an order to five milliseconds from 105 milliseconds, with the implementation of the new NYSE Super Display Book system (SDBK) for processing orders. As a result, NYSE customers are experiencing trade executions and reports within five milliseconds, as...