Noticias de Hoy

LONDON (Reuters) – U. S. stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 rising 0. 2 to 0. 3 percent. U. S. stocks slid on Monday, giving the S&P 500 its worst day since November, as renewed worries about the euro zone crisis caused the market to pull back from recent gains. Europe’s main markets were marginally in the black after the latest batch of corporate results on Tuesday. . . .

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares slid on Tuesday as investors saw opportunities to cash in from recent strong rallies in the face of weak U. S. data and worries that a potential political shake-up could disrupt the eurozone’s efforts to resolve its debt crisis. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan tumbled 0. 8 percent, dragged lower by a steep 1. 8 percent fall in Hong Kong shares . The euro took the brunt of renewed focus on the euro zone problems, having risen 2. 3 percent so far this year against the U. S. dollar, up about 5. 4 percent against sterling and 1. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Socks slid on Monday, giving the S&P 500 its worst day since November, as renewed worries about the euro zone crisis caused the market to pull back from recent gains. Shares of McGraw-Hill shed 13. 8 percent to $50. 30, their worst daily percentage decline since the October 1987 market crash, after news the U. S. Justice Department plans to sue Standard & Poor’s, a unit of McGraw-Hill, over its ratings in 2007 of some mortgage bond deals. Moody’s Corp shares were down 10. 7 percent at $49. 45, their worst one-day drop since August 2011. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U. S. stocks opened lower on Monday, dipping after a recent rally that took the S&P 500 to a five-year high and the Dow to 14,000 for the first time since October 2007. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 58. 67 points, or 0. 42 percent, at 13,951. 12. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was down 6. 84 points, or 0. 45 percent, at 1,506. 33. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 18. 33 points, or 0. 58 percent, at 3,160. 77. (Reporting by Ryan Vlastelica; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares climbed to 18-month highs on Monday after U. S. data showed some promise of a credible recovery but not strong enough to threaten the Federal Reserve’s easing plans, while momentum also gained on firmer manufacturing data from Europe and China. The yen took a break from heavy selling against the U. S. dollar and the euro, but fell to its lowest since August 2008 against the Australian and New Zealand dollars early on Monday on confidence of bold monetary support from the Bank of Japan to overcome the country’s stubborn deflation. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A rough couple of months in the U. S. bond market has lifted interest rates off record lows and now could impede a slow economic recovery heavily dependent on cheap money to keep going. While stocks have surged to near-record levels from five years ago, an accompanying rally in the $11. 6 trillion U. S. Treasury debt market appears to have run out of steam and bond prices have dropped steadily since early December. That has pushed up bond yields, which move in the opposite direction to prices and they are now at the highest levels since last spring. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Former customers of Jon Corzine’s collapsed brokerage MF Global would recover most, and probably all, of their money under the latest projections by the trustee liquidating its bankrupt parent company. In a court filing late on Friday, trustee Louis Freeh, the former FBI chief, outlined an amended version of a plan for how to divvy up MF Global’s assets and distribute them among various creditor classes. Freeh projected MF Global’s U. S. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U. S. government and Mexican tomato growers reached a tentative agreement on Saturday that reduces the threat of a costly trade war stemming from a U. S. decision last year to pull out of a 1996 bilateral tomato trade pact. "I am pleased that we were able to come to an agreement on fresh tomato imports from Mexico that restores stability and confidence to the U. S. tomato market and meets the requirements of U. S. law,"??? U. S. Commerce Under Secretary for International Trade Francisco Sanchez said in a statement. . . .

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ROME (Reuters) – A plan by Italy’s central bank to use bonds to bail out the troubled Monte Paschi bank can go ahead, a court ruled on Saturday, as a scandal surrounding the world’s oldest lender looked likely to widen three weeks before a national election. Magistrates in three cities investigating the Tuscan bank were poised to issue new summonses for more witnesses to give information next week following testimony by a raft of bankers in the past few days, leading newspapers said. . . .

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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Two top Federal Reserve officials painted a picture of cautious optimism on Friday for the U. S. economy in 2013, helped by stronger global growth as the central bank aggressively prints money to curb the nation’s lofty rate of unemployment. The Fed this week decided to keep buying bonds at a $85 billion monthly pace, and hold interest rates near zero until the jobless rate falls to 6. 5 percent, so long as inflation does not threaten to rise above a threshold of 2. 5 percent. U. S. unemployment edged up 0. 1 percentage point to 7. . . .

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