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The EU's giant stocks of skimmed milk powder (SMP) may end up as animal feed as the Commission continues to explore all options for its disposal, Commissioner Phil Hogan said yesterday.

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The potential deal sent both stocks soaring as it would tie up two giants from Quebec and give Metro an expanded foothold in the drug business, mirroring Loblaw Cos.» purchase of Shoppers Drug Mart four years ago.

In January, Saudi regulators changed rules for qualified foreign institutions to allow them to own up to 49 percent of listed securities as the kingdom opens up its stock market and plans a 5 percent sale of $ 2 trillion oil giant Aramco in 2019.

In late March, Tencent, the politically connected technology giant that recently became one of the world's 10 largest publicly traded companies, said it spent $ 1.8 billion buying Tesla stock.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

The planned initial public offering (IPO) of state oil giant Saudi Aramco (London is competing with New York to be the stock exchange where the company is listed overseas) is also expected to be discussed, the EIU's Abdelmeguid said.

Throughout 2012, Shaw purchased hundreds of thousands of shares in his own company, an effort to prop up the cable giant's flagging stock.

In chemicals, Clariant was one of the biggest talked - about stocks on Monday after the Swiss group announced an all - stock deal to merge with the U.S. - based Huntsman Corp., creating a chemicals giant worth over $ 14 billion.

Simon Property Group Inc. filed a lawsuit against Starbucks on Aug. 21, claiming the coffee giant had not fulfilled its lease obligations and «put its stock price above its contractual obligations, the viability of Simon and its Shopping Centers, other retailers and consumers who count on the Teavana stores,» USA Today reports.

That quarter included the IPO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, the largest global stock market debut ever.

Admittedly, after years of acquisitions, Berkshire's bottom line has more to do with the performance of the increasingly large companies it owns — including, for instance, railroad giant BNSF and Heinz — and less to do with the returns of its stock market portfolio.

The stock index giant plans to announce around 4:30 p.m. ET Tuesday whether mainland stocks will become part of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, which is tracked by an estimated $ 1.5 trillion in assets.

The 222 stocks MSCI is planning to add to the emerging markets index include financial giants like Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, Guotai Junan and Ping An Insurance, according to a document on MSCI's website.

LONDON, May 2 - World stocks inched higher on Wednesday after two days of losses but remained pinned down by the dollar's recent surge and expectations that a U.S. Forecast - beating results from U.S. tech giant Apple helped lift shares in technology shares worldwide, but with investor focus firmly on the Fed, equity futures were tipping only a marginally firmer...

To seek out the counterweights to this argument, Cramer zoomed in on the 10 best performing tech stocks in the S&P 500 for the first half of 2017 — gaming giants Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts, software players Adobe Systems, Red Hat and Autodesk, semiconductor - related companies Micron, Nvidia and Lam Research, payment provider PayPal and the Apple - involved Broadcom.

The wholesale supplier has lost a huge chunk of its stock market value as it battles the grocery giants.

Saudi Arabia's state - owned oil giant Saudi Aramco could first issue stock on its home market and privately place shares in the hands of big Asian investors before facing the complexity of listing on an international exchange.

IBM's stock has taken a wild ride over the past few weeks ever since the legacy giant reported its thirteenth straight decline in quarterly revenue, but that doesn't seem to bother legendary CEO and investor Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.

The wealth of Bezos grew by $ 3.3 billion on an after - hours surge of Amazon (amzn) stock Thursday, reports Bloomberg, on the back of the online retail giant's expectations - beating first quarter results.

Alibaba's stock plunged Thursday after the Chinese e-commerce giant reported quarterly revenue that fell short of expectations.

But as the housing market recovered along with Fannie and Freddie's profits, lawsuits filed by hedge fund investors raised the possibility that owners of the housing giants» stock might be owed the tens of millions in earnings the companies had been sending to the Treasury in recent quarters.

The stocks of these housing giants were left for dead after the housing market crashed.

The gaming giant also announced that during the holiday period, it repurchased 800,500 shares of stock at an average price of $ 49.39 for a total of $ 39.5 million.

A likely increase in regulation on technology giants could spell trouble for their stocks, if history is any guide, according to Michael Hartnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Like most of the analysts covering the stock, Cramer was shocked at the cloud giant's growth, which resembled the kind of growth more often seen at very small companies.

Facebook stock suffered its third worst week of all time in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal — which heightened privacy concerns and spurred government probes into the social media giant.

Denmark is facing its «Nokia moment»; drugmaker Novo Nordisk has ballooned into a $ 100 billion giant, dominating its home stock market just as the Finnish firm did at the height of the 1990s tech boom.

• Kinder Morgan Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of the Houston - based oil giant, closed nearly flat on its first day of on the Toronto Stock Exchange Tuesday.

Although the intention is to avoid the traditional «sin» stocks, such as tobacco, Mobius said he wouldn't rule out investing in a listing of oil giant Saudi Aramco, depending on how the board was set up: «Yes, if the conditions are right.»

The Canadian grocery and pharmacy giant is offering $ 3.10 cash per share of QHR Corp. of Kelowna, B.C. (TSXV: QHR)-- 22 per cent above the stock's closing price Friday on the TSX Venture Exchange.

When an investment firm requested a search of documents related to Sino - Forest Corp., the Chinese forestry giant once listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, a due diligence software engine dubbed The Brain came up with an article that asserted the company didn't appear to own as much land as it claimed to.

Software giant Oracle bought back $ 4 billion worth of stock last quarter, but Cramer thought the company's $ 70 billion pile of cash could've warranted an even larger buyback.

After retail giant Target revealed last Friday that some of the so - called luxury sheets originating from Indian textiles manufacturer Welspun were falsely labelled Egyptian cotton, Walmart (wmt) says it too is reviewing its stock.

They'd be easier for Netflix to adopt — it would probably be simple and cheap for the streaming video provider to stock up on old episodes of Beachcombers and The Friendly Giant, thereby meeting the percentage requirements.

Icahn, who owns more than 42 million shares of the insurance giant's stock, had sent a public letter to the company's CEO, Peter Hancock, in late October saying the company continued «to severely underperform» and was «too big to succeed.»

CASHED - UP international resource giants are circling WA's vulnerable resource sector.Declining commodity prices and this year's dot.com fervour have reduced the stock prices of resource companies.

The facts are not right here, energy is cheap that means the cost of manufacturing and transporting of goods is low, food and consumers staples already more affordable, so what if a few American oil companies going out of business.the cost of producing oil in middle east is less than $ 10 / bl and we were paying more than $ 140 / bl for it, with that huge profit margin the big oil companies and oil producing nations became richer and the rest of us left behind, with the oil price this low the oil giants don't want to reduce the price at pump even a penny, because they are so greedy.worst case scenario is some CEOs bonuses might drop from $ 20 million to $ 15 millions I am sure they will survive.in terms of the stock market it always bounces back, after all it's just a casino like game.

I was then thinking to myself, «What kind of idiot starts selling after these hedge fund giants sell after the stock has collapsed by 40 %?

His December 29 tweet accusing the e-commerce giant of taking advantage of the US Post Office appears to have sent its stock price down slightly — Amazon's shares fell 1.40 percent that day — but overall, company investors are fine.

Menlo Park, California - based social networking giant Facebook Inc. is all set for a stock buyback of $ 6 billion from its shareholders,...

The technology giant's stock has lost 7 % this month, and 15 % since it closed at its February 23rd record of $ 133 dollars.

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Shares of biopharmaceutical giant Pfizer (PFE - Free Pfizer Stock Report) held on to the top spot for a fifth consecutive month, with a cumulative gain of 7.6 % through June.

We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of «free markets»; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF / World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism.

During his tenure as chairman, Bernanke was acutely aware of the public's deep resentment of the Fed's emergency bailout of financial giants such as AIG as well as policies that inevitably favored the wealthy by spurring the stock market.

2017 was a tale of two halves for these two U.S. auto giants, while Ford failed to impress the stock market GM delivered market - beating returns.

The official archives of The Coca - Cola Company that includes exhibits such as the original stock certificates of forbearer Pemberton Chemical Company, an opportunity to sample 100 drinks from the beverage giant's portfolio of brands from around the world, a retail store, an advertising archive, a miniature bottling plant that allows you to see the process of turning the syrup into the finished product, an advertising theater with commercials from the past century in multiple languages around the world, and more.

Back in the 1990s, traders started referring to the «Greenspan Put,» the notion that the stock market as a whole had the equivalent of a giant put option in the form of the Fed chairman Alan Greenspan.

Jack Bogle likes to say «the stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.»

In recent weeks, the social - media giant has been enduring a firestorm and stock selloff after data - mining company Cambridge Analytica reportedly used the personal details of up to 87 million Facebook users without authorization.