Noticias de Hoy

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil and equities dawdled on Monday near multi-month highs scaled after robust Chinese trade data last week, while the euro slipped to a two-week low as uncertainty surrounded a political scandal in Spain and a looming election in Italy. With the Lunar New Year holiday shutting most Asian financial centers, including those in Japan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea, trading was light and volatile on many of those exchanges that remained open. . . .

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LONDON (Reuters) – With the road ahead looking a bit smoother, G20 finance ministers will be happy to ignore the wreck in the rear-view mirror when they meet this week to steer a course for the world economy. The euro zone as a whole and a clutch of its members, including France, Italy and the Netherlands, are expected to report that their economies shrank last quarter – joining Germany and the United States – while Japan’s barely grew, according to economists polled by Reuters. . . .

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NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tales of shady business practices abound in China – fake revenues, phony invoices, sham factories – but until recently, the problem seemed confined mostly to Chinese companies. No longer. Concern is growing about risks to U. S. -based multinationals in a country where American audit regulators are locked out by the Chinese government and bribery and fraud are routine. Questions about transparency and integrity weigh heavily on China, the world’s second-largest economy, as it assumes greater economic leadership and responsibility. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – US Airways Group Inc and AMR Corp are nearing an $11 billion merger that would create the world’s largest airline and could announce a deal within a week, after resolving key differences on valuation and management structure, people familiar with the matter said. Under terms of a deal that are still being finalized, US Airways Chief Executive Doug Parker would become CEO, while AMR’s Tom Horton would serve as non-executive chairman of the board until spring of 2014, when the combined company holds its first annual meeting, the sources said. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – US Airways Group Inc and AMR Corp are nearing an $11 billion merger that would create the world’s largest airline and could announce a deal within a week, after resolving key differences on valuation and management structure, people familiar with the matter said. Under terms of a deal that are still being finalized, US Airways Chief Executive Doug Parker would become CEO, while AMR’s Tom Horton would serve as non-executive chairman of the board until spring of 2014, when the combined company holds its first annual meeting, the sources said. . . .

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BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) – Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco called on Saturday for more powers for bank regulators to step in and dismiss bad managers but defended his institution’s oversight of the troubled Monte dei Paschi di Siena . Responding to criticism about banking oversight in the case of the Tuscan lender, Visco repeated that central bank supervisors had acted appropriately but asked for more scope to act in exceptional cases. . . .

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BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) – Italy’s troubled lender Monte dei Paschi expects to receive 3. 9 billion euros ($5. 2 billion) in state loans in a “very short time”, Chairman Alessandro Profumo said on Saturday. The funds, being provided through special bonds, are designed to shore up Italy’s third largest bank, which has been at the centre of a financial and political storm over losses resulting from derivatives and structured finance trades. “The bank will sign the ‘Monti bond’ in a very short time,” said Profumo, talking with journalists on the sidelines of a business conference. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – At least three of Dell Inc’s top 20 shareholders support Southeastern Asset Management’s decision to vote against the $24. 4 billion buyout of the No. 3 PC maker led by CEO Michael Dell, a person close to the matter said. Among the holders who support Southeastern are Harris Associates LP, Yacktman Asset Management LP and Pzena Investment Management LLC, which between them hold roughly 3. 3 percent in Dell, the person said. Harris and Yacktman were not immediately available for comment. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nasdaq composite stock index closed at a 12-year high and the S&P 500 index at a five-year high, boosted by gains in technology shares and stronger overseas trade figures. The S&P 500 also posted a sixth straight week of gains for the first time since August. The technology sector led the day’s gains, with the S&P 500 technology index up 1. 0 percent. Gains in professional network platform LinkedIn Corp and AOL Inc after they reported quarterly results helped the sector. Shares of LinkedIn jumped 21. 3 percent to $150. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stock index rose on Friday after a batch of positive economic data points, but gains were checked with the benchmark S&P index at five-year highs as investors looked for strong catalysts to push the market further upward. Data showed Chinese exports grew more than expected in January, while imports climbed 28. 8 percent, highlighting robust domestic demand, while German data showed a 2012 surplus that was the nation’s second highest in more than 60 years, an indication of the underlying strength of Europe’s biggest economy. Another positive sign was U. S. . . .

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