Euro zone strugglers lack innovative knack
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:48:01 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - To get an idea of the economic mountain euro zone strugglers Greece and Portugal have to climb, consider this: per million inhabitants, they each filed fewer than eight applications with the European Patent Office in 2010.
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Merkozy fights to prevent Merkollande
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:50:36 +0000
PARIS (Reuters) - Things must be getting desperate if Angela Merkel is intervening in French politics to try to save Nicolas Sarkozy from defeat.
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Japan's stay-at-home firms finally spread their wings
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:49:58 +0000
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese companies are again venturing offshore, and this time a new breed of business is striking deals overseas.
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A sobering look at Facebook
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:34:45 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.
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Bond benchmarks put investors in undue danger
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:15:58 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Investors are needlessly exposing themselves to huge potential losses by defying two golden rules for making money through bonds - lend more to those who will pay on time in full and less to those already saturated in debt.
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Spectre of forced selling haunts rallying Italy debt
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:41:27 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - Italy's bonds have made sizzling returns this year but fears the country will lose its investment-grade status are putting off long-term investors whose support Rome needs to tackle a mountain of refinancing and ease worries about its debt.
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Facebook IPO tests easy growth assumptions
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:09:39 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As Facebook hurtles toward one of the largest initial public offerings in U.S. history, its honeymoon with investors may already be over.
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Facebook's daunting Asian challenge
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:11:15 +0000
(Reuters) - Facebook aims to connect all two billion Internet users. So far it has captured 845 million of them. Of the rest, nearly 60 percent live in Asia and hooking them is going to be a daunting challenge.
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Patent plaintiffs target Facebook as IPO approaches
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:35:09 +0000
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As it prepares for one of the biggest IPOs ever, Facebook is coming under the same fierce attacks being waged against other big technology companies: patent lawsuits.
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Why ECB liquidity is not reaching Portugal
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:08:14 +0000
LONDON (Reuters) - A slump in Portuguese bond prices in the past month shows there are parts of the euro zone government debt market that massive shots of cheap money from the European Central Bank cannot reach.
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