Noticias de Hoy

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell for a third straight day on Wednesday, dragged lower by retail stocks after a report showed consumers spent less in the holiday shopping season than last year. Trading was light, with volume at a mere 4. 01 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, well below the daily average so far this year of about 6. 48 billion shares. The day’s volume was the lightest full day of trading so far in 2012. Many senior traders were still on vacation during this holiday-shortened week and major European markets were closed for the day. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks were little changed on Wednesday ahead of the resumption of negotiations over the "fiscal cliff". President Barack Obama, after vacationing in Hawaii, is due back in Washington early Thursday for a final effort to negotiate a deal with Congress to avert or at least postpone the cliff, a series of tax increases and government spending cuts set to begin next week. . . .

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TOKYO (Reuters) – The yen fell to a 20-month low against the dollar on Wednesday, buoying the benchmark Nikkei stock average to nine-month highs, as Japan swore in a new prime minister eager to pursue drastic stimulus steps to drive the country’s economy out of deflation. Asian shares and other assets were capped in thin holiday trade, with investors focusing on the fate of U. S. negotiations to avert a budget crunch looming at the end of the year. . . .

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Expectations that Japan’s incoming prime minister will pursue drastic stimulus policies to drive the country’s economy out of deflation helped weaken the yen and underpinned the Nikkei on Wednesday, while Asian shares were capped in thin holiday trade. Singapore , Malaysia , Indonesia , the Philippines and South Korea were closed on Tuesday for the Christmas holiday, reopening on Wednesday. Hong Kong and Australia remain closed on Wednesday. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched up 0. 1 percent, after rising 0. . . .

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Hitachi Ltd remains in talks with Lithuania over its plans to build a nuclear plant after the European country’s new centre-left government said it could shelve nuclear projects, the company’s top executive said on Tuesday. Hitachi, a century-old conglomerate that designs and builds nuclear power plants with General Electric Co in two joint ventures, has shifted its focus overseas as Japan shuns nuclear energy in the wake of the worst radiation crisis in 25 years at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant last year. . . .

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Sony Corp’s business in China has "more or less" returned to levels seen before recent protests against Japan’s actions over a group of disputed islands, the Japanese company’s China chief, Nobuki Kurita, told reporters on Tuesday. Calls for boycotts of Japanese products broke out across China in September after Japan nationalized two of a group of disputed East China Sea islands, known as the Diaoyu in Chinese and the Senkaku in Japanese, by purchasing them from their private owners. . . .

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Uncertainty over whether U. S. lawmakers will strike a deal by an end-of-year deadline to avert a severe fiscal retrenchment undermined the yen and bolstered Japanese shares, but trading volume was low with many participants on Christmas holiday. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner failed to gain support for a tax plan at the end of last week, raising fears that the United States may face the "fiscal cliff" of some $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases set to start on January 1. U. S. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – U. S. stocks edged lower on Monday as caution over the potential for volatility driven by worries about the U. S. "fiscal cliff" dampened enthusiasm at the start of a seasonally strong period for equities. Investors are betting Congress will reach a deal to avert most of the austerity measures due to come into force at the start of next year. That has led to the best year for stocks since the post-financial crisis rebound. But those gains may be quickly reversed if a deal is not reached soon. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks edged lower on Monday after the S&P 500 suffered its worst drop since mid-November on continued worry legislators will be unable to reach a deal to avert the "fiscal cliff. " The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 27. 95 points, or 0. 21 percent, to 13,162. 89. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index dropped 2. 55 points, or 0. 18 percent, to 1,427. 60. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 6. 23 points, or 0. 21 percent, to 3,014. 78. (Reporting by Edward Krudy; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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MARTINSBURG, West Virginia (Reuters) – The brave new world for U. S. retailers can be found in small cities like Martinsburg, West Virginia. That’s where department store chain Macy’s Inc recently opened a facility the size of 43 football fields – big enough to stock 1 million pairs of shoes – just to fulfill orders made online. The $150 million building, its third one dedicated primarily to supporting macys. com, has already been handling 60,000 orders on a busy day this holiday season. Macy’s expects that figure to triple in two years. . . .

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