Noticias de Hoy

LONDON (Reuters) – European shares and the euro edged higher on Wednesday supported by expectations of more monetary stimulus from the U. S. Federal Reserve when it ends its two-day policy meeting later in the day. Oil, copper and gold prices were also underpinned by the talk as well as by recent positive economic data from Europe and the United States, while the dollar hovered near multi-month lows against higher yielding currencies. Markets expect the Fed to expand its current asset purchase scheme, committing to buy $45 billion of U. S. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks rose on Tuesday, led by gains in technology companies, helping the S&P 500 end at its highest level since Election Day. A 2. 2 percent gain to $541. 39 in Apple’s stock lifted the Nasdaq, as the largest U. S. company by market value rebounded from a week in which investors took profits before a possible tax rise next year. Prior to Tuesday’s trading, Apple shares had lost 25 percent from an all-time intraday high hit in September. Stocks pared some gains by late afternoon as more news on the "fiscal cliff" negotiations emerged. U. S. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Rising shares in technology companies helped push major stock indexes up around 1 percent on Tuesday, as the S&P 500 reached its best levels since mid-October, recouping its post-election selloff. A 3. 1 percent gain in Apple Inc’s stock lifted the Nasdaq, as the largest U. S. company by market value rebounded from a week in which investors took profits before a possible tax rise next year. Prior to Tuesday’s trading, Apple shares had lost 25 percent from an all-time intraday high hit in September. Other major tech stocks also rose. Texas Instruments gained 3. . . .

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(Reuters) – HSBC has agreed to pay a record $1. 92 billion fine to settle a multi-year probe by U. S. prosecutors, who accused Europe’s biggest bank of failing to enforce rules designed to prevent the laundering of criminal cash. HSBC Holdings Plc admitted to a breakdown of controls and apologized in a statement on Tuesday announcing it had reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with the U. S. Department of Justice, as first reported by Reuters last week. "We accept responsibility for our past mistakes. We have said we are profoundly sorry for them, and we do so again. . . .

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BOSTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs bankers failed to raise red flags about Lernout & Hauspie’s accounting irregularities more than a decade ago, costing speech recognition software pioneers at Dragon Systems nearly all of their life’s work and about $600 million, a lawyer told a jury on Monday in federal court. "They were relying on Goldman to take care of them and whether or not they should be worried about these questions," plaintiffs’ lawyer Alan Cotler said in his opening statement. He kicked off what is expected to be a two-month courtroom battle in U. S. District Court in Boston. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks edged higher on Monday as technology shares bounced back after recent weakness and McDonald’s posted strong monthly sales. Technology stocks were led by Hewlett-Packard Co , which climbed 2. 6 percent to $14. 16 on rumors that activist investor Carl Icahn is building a stake in the PC maker. The stock is down 44. 5 percent for the year and ranks as the Dow’s worst performer. The S&P technology index was up 0. 3 percent. Tech also was supported by Cisco Systems , which gained 2. 4 percent to $19. 79 after the company presented its midterm growth strategy on Friday. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks opened little changed on Monday as investors awaited any sign of progress in talks to avert the United States’ so-called fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 1. 35 points, or 0. 01 percent, to 13,156. 48. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index shed 1. 81 points, or 0. 13 percent, to 1,416. 26. The Nasdaq Composite Index lost 3. 62 points, or 0. 12 percent, to 2,974. 42. (Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Kenneth Barry)

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SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian shares touched a 16-month high on Monday as investors took heart from rising factory output growth in China and a falling unemployment rate in the United States that raised hopes about the outlook for the world’s top two economies. The positive mood was tempered by Chinese trade data that saw both exports and imports come in below forecasts, but equities and commodities such as copper and oil remained in the black. European shares were seen opening flat-to-higher. . . .

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The contrast could not be sharper: Economists are all but certain the U. S. Federal Reserve will expand its monetary stimulus this week, but they have no clue how the fiscal battle in Congress will shake out. U. S. central bankers look set to extend their monetary stimulus, known as Quantitative Easing, into the new year at a meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday. Analysts expect the Fed to continue buying $85 billion worth of securities per month. . . .

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors typically sell stocks to cut their losses at year end. But worries about the "fiscal cliff" – and the possibility of higher taxes in 2013 – may act as the greatest incentive to sell both winners and losers by December 31. The $600 billion of automatic tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for the beginning of next year includes higher rates for capital gains, making tax-related selling even more appealing than usual. Tax-related selling may be behind the weaker trend in the shares of market leader Apple , analysts said. . . .

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