Articles by Daniel Pereira
Gaming industry heavyweights facing uncertain futures
6/19/2012, 4:50 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Technology, US Markets
The videogame industry, upended by a surge in the popularity of
'casual' mobile and social gaming apps, faces some dramatic years
of rethinking and evolution. At the beginning of the current... Read >>
JPMorgan losses grow as speculation intensifies
5/23/2012, 4:17 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Banking and Loans, Credit and Debt, US Markets
According to analysts at Morgan Stanley (
MS
), the losses sustained by JPMorgan Chase's (
JPM
) chief
investment
office in London will reach $5 billion rather than the $3... Read >>
Barclays Bank set to sell entire $6.1 billion BlackRock stake
5/21/2012, 4:13 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Banking and Loans, International, Investing Ideas
Barclays Bank (
BCS
) - the second largest bank in the United Kingdom by assets -
announced Monday that it will dispose of its entire
ownership
in BlackRock (
BLK
), the... Read >>
Brazilian real slips below key mark against dollar
5/15/2012, 3:52 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, ETFs, Forex and Currencies, International
The Brazilian real slipped to R$2.00 versus the U.S. dollar in
Monday
trading
, a key benchmark which suggests that
finance
minister Guido Mantega has made progress in battling the... Read >>
What JPMorgan's $2 billion loss means for the bank and the industry
5/14/2012, 2:53 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Banking and Loans, Economy, International
Last week, JPMorgan Chase (
JPM
) announced in its quarterly report that its London
trading
desk lost $2 billion in a risky series of financial transactions
that hedged the bank against... Read >>
Cyberwarfare threat against energy infrastructure remains poorly understood
5/9/2012, 4:00 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Commodities, Technology, US Markets
The Stuxnet virus - most likely created and deployed by U.S.
intelligence services - represented a new phase of warfare, in
which malicious code could physically and dramatically affect... Read >>
Australian dollar slides in response to RBA rate cut
5/1/2012, 4:40 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Commodities, Forex and Currencies, International
The Australian dollar lost ground in
trading
today, falling about 1 percent against the U.S. dollar, the
Japanese yen, the British pound and the euro. The main driver for
the decline came... Read >>
Will we see a new wave of shareholder activism?
4/26/2012, 4:49 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Investing Ideas, Stocks, Technology
Earlier this month, Citgroup (
C
) shareholders voted to reject a $15 million pay package for chief
executive officer Vikram Pandit, with 55 percent of the votes
against the... Read >>
Anti-Iran Sanctions Prompt Oil Jousting
4/23/2012, 8:48 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Bonds, Economy, International
Iran's
oil
customers have begun significant jousting and re-positioning to
avoid trouble caused by the U.S. sanctions levied against the
Middle Eastern nation. Iran's commerce partners are... Read >>
Haunted Europe - the specters of crisis
4/23/2012, 3:47 am from Daniel Pereira in News Headlines, Economy, ETFs, International
Until this weekend, investors and policymakers generally
regarded the Dutch government as a basically uninteresting sideshow
to the critical issues facing the European Union. Yet a... Read >>