International stock news

Rss Today on Proactive AU

2013-06-18

All Ords bounces off lows on bank bargain-hunting

 
Australian equities staged an afternoon comeback with the All Ordinaries closing just 10 points down at 4795, after hitting an intra-day low of 4750 before the bargain-hunters entered the market and snapped up the banks - with the Tier 2 sector outperforming. In the pre-open market the Dow-mini is up 16 points to 15,137.
FULL ARTICLE

 

Rss Today on Proactive UK

2013-06-18

Silence Therapeutics cancer drug successfully negotiates safety hurdle first time

 
Silence Therapeutics said it had successfully negotiated the initial safety assessment of its cancer drug Atu027. It is being used in combination with gemcitabine, the most common chemotherapy, to treat pancreatic cancer, the terminal disease that killed Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze.
FULL ARTICLE

 

Rss Today on Proactive US

2013-06-18

Wall Street narrows gains after FT Fed report; Dow bounces back to finish with triple digit gains

 
U.S. markets pared gains sharply in the last hour of trade on Monday, but rebounded in the last minutes, after a report in the Financial Times said that the Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is expected to say later this week that the central bank is nearing the anticipated tapering of its monthly bond purchases. 
FULL ARTICLE