FMX | Connect – www.fmxconnect.com - (Reported 6/18/2010)
- Afghan president Karzai welcomes Japan investment in minerals.
- Asian stocks mixed, but losses limited as worries over Europe's debt crisis ease.
- Asia emerging-market stocks, currencies rise on growth; Gold near record.
- China shares fall as pricing worries for Agricultural Bank IPO linger.
- EU stress tests face questions over toughness of terms, Government backing.
- Japan aims to cut company tax toward 25% in strategy to stoke growth.
- Russia, in need of 'investment boom,' to scrap capital gains tax on foreign investment.
- U.S. consumer prices fell 0.2% last month, despite higher commodity prices.
- World Bank report says China's economy shows signs of softening, though still strong.
- Adolor: 2 osteoarthritis drugs being developed with Pfizer are not effective than a placebo.
- Aiful, Japanese consumer lenders face industry shakeout as law caps rates.
- Banco Santander offers to buy 300 Royal Bank of Scotland branches across Britain.
- Banner Corp announces commencement of $150M public offering of common stock.
- BP’s $20B fund may not stop spill lawsuits, Judge says.
- BSkyB investors vow fight to boost Murdoch's bid to at least 800p a share.
- Campbell is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs due to possible underprocessing.
- CVS and Walgreen settle major differences.
- HSBC Holdings sells $3.4B of perpetual securities with a coupon of 8 percent.
- JM Smucker's earnings rose 28% on fewer restructuring charges; revs up 4%.
- Kroger reports 14% drop in qtrly earnings on lower margins; revs up 8.7% at $24.76B.
- Motorola's Board to pump bulk of cash reserves into cellphone business after spinoff.
- Nestle completes 25 billion francs share buyback, confirms new 10 billion francs Program.
- Pier 1 Imports posted a surprise profit of $7.7M on better inventory mgmt.
- Smithfield wants "in or out" of turkey processor Butterball; cites poor performance.
- US sues Oracle over pricing; may have overcharged govt by tens of millions of dollars.
- Winnebago swung to a quarterly profit as shipments more than doubled to $134.8M.
- Volkswagen ups 2010 outlook as first 5 months sales exceed company's expectations.
Source: ZeroHedge
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