Noticias de Hoy

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares inched ahead while the dollar lost ground as investors counted on easy money from central banks in the euro zone and United States to offset the risk of further disappointment from global economic data. Activity was sporadic with Japanese markets closed for a holiday and China off until Thursday. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0. 3 percent, but off a six-week high touched on Friday. Singapore’s share market added 0. 2 percent , while Australia’s market gained 0. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

By Caroline Valetkevitch and Ben Berkowitz NEW YORK (Reuters) – U. S. companies have easily beaten expectations for first-quarter earnings so far in the reporting season, but nearly half of the members of the S&P 500 are yet to announce results and they are unlikely to be as robust. With results in from 271 of the S&P 500 companies, year-over-year earnings growth is projected at 3. 9 percent, compared with a forecast for 1. 5 percent growth at the start of the earnings season, Thomson Reuters data shows. That figure includes those that have reported and analyst estimates for those who have not. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Dell shareholders could still stand to profit even after Blackstone Group LP withdrew its bid to buy the world’s No. 3 personal computer maker more than a week ago, Barron’s said on Sunday. On April 19, Blackstone’s move knocked Dell shares to a two-month low and narrowed the fight for Dell between activist investor Carl Icahn and the company’s founder Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners, the newspaper said. Blackstone dropped its bid for Dell at $14. 25 a share, citing deteriorating demand for PCs. On Friday, Dell’s stock closed at $13. 35, below the $13. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

TOKYO (Reuters) – All Nippon Airways , the Japanese launch customer for Boeing Co’s 787, flew its first Dreamliner in more than three months on Sunday to test reinforced batteries installed by the U. S. aircraft maker. The ANA flight was the second by an airline since aviation regulators on Friday gave permission for 787 operations to restart after batteries on two of them overheated in mid January. One was on an ANA plane in Japan and another on a Japan Airlines jet parked at Boston’s Logan airport. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

PARIS (Reuters) – Renault-Nissan hopes to receive final approval from Beijing by the summer to build its first Renault plant in China, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said on Saturday. Ghosn had said last month he expected final government approval for the plant by the end of the year. "Renault already has a plan for China, which is ready, and currently being negotiated with the Chinese government, and I hope we will have all agreements before the summer," Ghosn told French radio Europe 1. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

(Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Saturday it had suspended all employee furloughs and that it expects the U. S. air travel system to return to normal by Sunday evening Eastern Time. The suspension follows passage on Friday of a bill allowing the agency to shift money within its budget to halt furloughs of air-traffic controllers that started April 21. The furloughs, prompted by automatic budget cuts, caused thousands of flight delays and hundreds of cancellations throughout the week. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

By Wanfeng Zhou NEW YORK (Reuters) – With signs of a slower economy mounting, the near-term outlook for U. S. stocks isn’t rosy, but investors may find comfort next week from the world’s major central banks. The Federal Reserve will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the report of weaker-than-expected, first-quarter growth could reinforce expectations the Fed will keep purchasing bonds at a pace of $85 billion a month. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U. S. government on Friday announced its second civil fraud lawsuit against Novartis AG in four days, accusing a unit of the Swiss drugmaker of paying multimillion-dollar kickbacks to doctors in exchange for prescribing its drugs. Authorities said the Basel-based company for a decade lavished healthy speaking fees and "opulent" meals, including a nearly $10,000 dinner for three at the Japanese restaurant, Nobu, to induce doctors to prescribe its drugs. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks dipped in thin volume on Friday, though the market had a strong week overall despite a mixed bag of earnings and weak economic figures. Shares of online retailer Amazon. com Inc posted the largest daily drop in 15 months after the company reported results late on Thursday. It was Friday’s biggest drag on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes. Gains in shares of Chevron Corp buoyed the blue-chip Dow industrials. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News

By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks mostly slipped on Friday as the latest round of economic data indicated that growth fell short of expectations in the latest quarter. Amazon. com Inc tumbled after results, pressuring both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq, though gains at Hewlett-Packard Co and Chevron Corp kept the Dow in modestly positive territory. Despite the day’s decline, major indexes were on track for a week of solid gains. Gross domestic product expanded at a 2. 5 percent rate in the first quarter, below estimates for growth of 3 percent but above the 0. . . .

View full post on Business News Headlines – Yahoo! News