NYSE Market News

The views of Postman Poirot is unkown. NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext (NYX), has introduced equity options on the shares of bpost, Belgium’s largest provider of postal services. The options will be available on the Brussels derivatives market of NYSE Liffe. bpost is the leading postal operator in Belgium. The […]

Exploring who will survive the evolution of technology. Today’s competitive market hosts the ebbs and flows of several hundred technology companies’ stock prices. While many companies face disappointment others are smiling at continual growth. In regards to technology, what is the most prominent smartphone? Walking the streets of London, you will certainly see Samsung Androids […]

Fresh liffe on the market. NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext (NYX), will introduce equity options on the shares of Gemalto N.V.,the world leader in digital security. The options will be available as of July 25th on the Amsterdam derivatives market of NYSE Liffe. Gemalto enables its customers – wireless operators, […]

Commitment further demonstrates NYSE Euronext’s leadership in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability NYSE Euronext has announced that it has joined the United Nations’ Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative, which aims to explore how exchanges can work together with investors, regulators, and companies to enhance corporate transparency on Environmental, Social and...

Imagine that you are a senior pharmaceutical executive.  The first thing you want to do is make certain, when you wake up in the morning, that you do not work for GlaxoSmithKline (LSE:GSK).  The second thing you want to do is look out the window and make sure that you are not in China, or […]

It’s amazing how deeply embedded some corporate images are in our minds.  Just the other day, I was talking with someone in Canada and mentioned “the company with the purple, polka-dot arches.”  They knew immediately what company I was referring to – and so did you.  Coincidentally, that company, McDonalds Corporation (NYSE:MCD) hit the market headlines […]

Increased cooperation between BP and the emerging superpower. BP and CNOCC, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, have signed a production sharing agreement for Block 54/11 in the deepwater Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea. The block covers 4,586 square kilometres in water depths from 370 to 2,300 metres, and is close to BP’s […]

Index outperformed S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 in its first year As leading CEOs from many long-established companies convened for the second-annual NYSE Century Club summit at the New York Stock Exchange, the year-old namesake index, which measures the performance of 348 companies that have been in business for at least 100 years, has gained […]

Will it be the Liffe and soul of the market? NYSE Liffe, the European based derivatives business of NYSE Euronext (NYX), announces that it will launch equity options on the shares of TKH Group N.V. Trading in the options will start as of August 6th on the Amsterdam derivatives market of NYSE Liffe. The new […]

Its going to be an interesting end-of-the-week for tech stocks now that both IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Intel (NASDAQ:INTC) have released their quarterly earnings reports.  Neither one was very exciting for shareholders, as both reported double-digit declines in earnings. IBM IBM, which for the trivia minded, was born and raised in my hometown, reported a drop […]