Global

GLOBAL - In a few hours time at 9.30am EST, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the world's largest, will ring its opening bell.

GLOBAL - Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), the global real estate services and investment management firm, has promoted Peter Roberts to the position of executive vice president and chief operating officer.

GLOBAL - Standard & Poor's, the global rating agency, has said the direct financial losses relating to last week's attacks on the US will in all likelihood exceed the largest insured losses ever yet seen.

GLOBAL - Salomon Smith Barney, the investment bank whose New York operations were wiped out following the devastating attack on the World Trade Center towers has issued a bullish statement on the tempo of global markets.

GLOBAL - PricewaterhouseCoopers is planning to cut 7% of it UK consulting staff in the wake of the current global economic slowdown.

GLOBAL - Nearly a third of venture capitalist firms are investing more during the current economic slowdown, a new survey from Deloitte & Touche shows. The survey - Private Equity Confidence Survey - found that 29%of venture capitalists thought investment...

GLOBAL - Moves by HSBC to increase the number of sell recommendations its brokers make have not gone far enough, according to critics.

GLOBAL - Following terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York the world's financial community has expressed shock and condolence for the victims of the tragedy.

GLOBAL - Private equity investment surged 30% last year, recording a new high of US $177bn but is now set to slowdown, according to a report by venture capitalists 3i and consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers.

GLOBAL - Global benchmark provider MSCI is rebalancing its small cap country indices.