Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is...

Many investors are still learning about the various metrics that can be useful when analysing a stock. This article is...

The announcement of the partial trade deal between the United States and China had very little influence on the market late in the session, which suggests traders aren’t too happy with the news.

(Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his Cabinet on Sunday that a Brexit deal is achievable, as his opponents in parliament remain divided over their strategy to prevent Britain from crashing out of the European Union this month.Johnson said that while a pathway to an agreement could be seen, there is still a significant amount of work required and the U.K. must be prepared to leave on Oct. 31, according to a spokesperson.Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said the Labour Party ...

Oil and gas companies have discovered 7.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent (boe) year-to-date, resulting in a replacement rate of a meagre 16%

(Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG is weighing options for its Lamborghini supercar brand, as the German manufacturer moves ahead with an overhaul aimed at more than doubling its market value and getting ahead of an industry shakeout, according to people familiar with the matter.The options VW is mulling include a sale or stock listing, said the people, who asked not to be named because the deliberations are confidential and no decisions have been made. VW has started preparations to fold Lamborghi...

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsLagarde chairs first ECB governing council todayExpected to outline new vision for eurozone central bank 8.55am GMT Christine Lagarde could help the ‘green finance’ movement today, by signalling that the ECB will do more to fight the climate emergency.Environmental activists are demanding action -- on Lagarde’s first day, they marched outside the ECB’s headquarters with a banner that read “if the Earth was a bank you’d have rescued it”...

(Bloomberg) -- A major Chinese commodities trader became the biggest dollar bond defaulter among the nation’s state-owned companies in two decades, in a moment of reckoning for Beijing as it struggles to contain credit risk in a weakening economy.Tewoo Group Corp. announced results of its unprecedented debt restructuring, which saw a majority of its investors accepting heavy losses. This is expected to reshape investors’ perceptions about government-owned borrowers whose identity has for year...

Liquidity levels will be tested as early as Monday, when Wall Street firms have to shell over cash to the U.S. Treasury for this week's government bond sales and businesses draw down reserves to make quarterly tax payments - events that could drain more than $100 billion in liquidity from the banking system. Some large banks may scale back lending in the repo market in an effort to shrink their balance sheets to avoid regulatory penalties, which would add to the funding stress. The Fed's re...

(Bloomberg) -- Only a few days after Nintendo Co.’s Switch made its long-anticipated entry into China, one analyst is making a bullish case for Mario and Zelda’s prospects in the world’s biggest gaming arena.Nintendo could sell as many as four million Switch units in China in the fiscal year ending March and 12 million units of software, London-based tech equity researcher Pelham Smithers wrote in a note to clients. That could add as much as 23 billion yen ($212 million) to the Kyoto-based co...