The fall of the Ungureanu Cabinet stops the series of key interest cuts operated by BNR at 5.25 pc, Governor Mugur Isarescu confirmed. The reference exchange rate announced by the National Bank of Romania (BNR) reached a new historical peak at 4.4168 RON/EUR, up RON 0.0198 (1.98 Ban) from Monday’s level, as the RON tempered its [...]

By Dave HowardNewsbeat politics reporter Critics call iPads a “new toy” for MPs when others are cutting back All MPs are to be offered Apple iPad tablet computers. At a cost of £400 per tablet and a total of 650 MPs, it could cost £260,000 plus monthly 3G subscription charges. Parliamentary authorities say the move [...]

NEW YORK, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCM.PK), the company that operates the world’s largest electronic marketplace for OTC-traded equities, today announced that Teras Resources Inc. (OTCQX: TRARF; TSX.V: TRA), a junior mining exploration development company, is now trading on the highest tier of the OTC market, OTCQX®.  (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110118/MM31963LOGO ) Teras [...]

Logitech shares are trading sharply higher Thursday morning after the maker PC and consumer electronics peripherals posted better-than-expected profits for its fiscal fourth quarter ended March 31. For the quarter, Logitech reported revenue of $532 million, down 3% from a year ago, and shy of the Street consensus at $538.4 million. But profits of 17 [...]

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(MoneyWatch) COMMENTARY With all the regulation, legislation, investigation, incarceration, and — let’s face it — taxation, you’d think insider trading would have been all but eradicated by now. Well, it hasn’t been. Not even a little. We tend to attribute insider trading to corporate greed and individual fraud, but it wouldn’t be a chronic problem [...]

A stock trader, a lawyer and a mortgage broker who all pleaded guilty to an insider-trading scheme that spanned 17 years agreed to pay $33 million to resolve a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit. Stock trader Garrett D. Bauer will pay $31.7 million, mortgage broker Kenneth T. Robinson will pay $845,235 and attorney Matthew [...]

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DENVER (AP) — Janus Capital Group Inc. reported Tuesday that its first-quarter net income dropped 40.3 percent from last year as investors pulling their money out of the company’s funds reduced its assets under management from a year earlier. The Denver investment fund manager earned $22.6 million, or 12 cents a share, in the January-March [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Zions Bancorp fell more than 3 percent percent in trading Tuesday after the regional bank reported first-quarter earnings that some analysts viewed as weaker than expected amid continued dampened profitability, stalled growth in new loans and low interest rates. THE SPARK: Salt Lake City-based Zions reported Monday after the [...]