Drugmaker Shire was among the fallers on Wednesday as the FTSE 100’s best quarter on record ended with a whimper ...

UK blue chips have propelled the FTSE index to its best three months since it started in 1984, fuelled by a flood of government liquidity and investors’ hopes for a lasting economic recovery, gaining 21 per cent since June ...

Pharmaceuticals led a decline on European indices after UBS downgraded Germany’s Bayer from ‘buy’ to ‘neutral’ ...

Wynn priced the $1.6bn initial public offering of its Macao operations on Wednesday at the top end of an indicative range amid strong demand as investors bet that the city’s gaming market would continue to improve ...

What explains the continued strength of stocks? Certainly not fundamentals – but somebody must be buying ...

US companies shed fewer jobs in September than in any month in the last year, as the painful pace of job cuts has slowly begun to abate, but a labour market recovery continues to show signs that it will lag behind the rest of the economy ...

Proximity to technology is the latest high frequency dealing necessity, but the banks of circuit breakers and cooling units are supporting a bigger gamble than any trader might make ...

From Scott Cutler: Secondary offerings by publicly listed companies have raised over $176 billion on the NYSE so far this year, proving that there is plenty of cash on the sidelines that wants to be put to work. This healthy appetite has also created the most vibrant IPO market in the last two years. So far, $7 billion has been raised on the NYS...

There is a movement in more than a dozen states to outlaw a crucial element of health care reform: the requirement that everyone be insured or pay a penalty. ...

Abortion opponents in Congress are seeking to block people who might receive federal subsidies for health insurance from using the money on plans that cover abortion. ...