Archive for December, 2007

Shares hurt by tax selling may rebound in 2008

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Home constructers and financial issues, the largegest casualties of the subprime lending meltdown, were hit again by tax-motivated selling in recent weeks but could rebound a bit early in the new year, money managers has said on Monday.

Existing home sales edge up from record low

Monday, December 31st, 2007

WASHINGTON - The pace of existing United States home sales edged up in November from a record low, according to a report on Monday that offered a few tentative signs of stabilization in the still-ailing housing market.

Market ends down for day, higher for year

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Stocks fell on Monday, but the three major indexes ended higher for the year after gains in energy and technology offset the dramatic sell-off in financials from the subprime mortgage meltdown.

Citigroup, Merrill top Wall St underwriters in 2007

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Citigroup Inc and Merrill Lynch & Co were the world’s top underwriters of stocks and bonds in 2007, measured by volume and reported fees, despite being at the epicenter of the global credit crisis.

Merrill in talks for largeger boost to capital: report

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds that could lead to the sale of another large stake in the United States bank, British newspaper The Observer reported, citing sources in London and New York.

Merrill in talks for largeger boost to capital: report

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds that could lead to the sale of another large stake in the United States bank, British newspaper The Observer reported, citing sources in London and New York.

Merrill in talks for largeger boost to capital: report

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Merrill Lynch & Co is in talks with Chinese and Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds that could lead to the sale of another large stake in the United States bank, British newspaper The Observer reported, citing sources in London and New York.

Profit projections slide for fourth quarter

Monday, December 31st, 2007

NEW YORK - Projections for S&P 500 companies’ fourth-quarter earnings swung to a 6.1 percent drop on Monday from an 11.5 percent rise on October 1, in the largegest quarterly move since Reuters Estimates started compiling analysts’ forecasts in 1999.