Bookies see Europe stocks extending rally

July 12 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expect to see the leading European benchmark indexes rising on Monday, adding to last week’s strong rally, as robust exports data from China helped boost sentiment about the global economy.

Financial spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 30 to 33 points higher, or as much as 0.6 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 28 to 31 points higher, or as much as 0.5 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 16 to 19 points higher, or as much as 0.5 percent.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

Bookies see Europe stocks resuming retreat

June 29 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expect leading European benchmark indexes to fall on Tuesday, retreating for the fifth time in six sessions and tracking losses on Wall Street and in Asia.

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Financial spreadbetters expect Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 36 to 48 points lower, or as much as 1 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 33 to 48 points lower, or as much as 0.8 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 34 to 44 points lower, or as much as 1.2 percent. (Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by James Regan)

Bookies see Europe stocks snapping winning run

June 22 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expect to see the leading European benchmark indexes falling on Tuesday as losses on Wall Street and in Asia prompt investors to cash in some profits after a nine-session winning streak.

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Financial spreadbetters expect Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 42 to 48 points lower, or as much as 0.9 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 31 to 38 points lower, or as much as 0.6 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 34 to 39 points lower, or as much as 1 percent. (Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by James Regan)

Bookies see Europe stocks extending rally

June 16 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expected to see the leading European benchmark indexes rising on Wednesday, climbing for a sixth session in a row and tracking a strong rally on Wall Street.

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Financial spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 43 to 45 points higher, or as much as 0.9 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 26 to 32 points higher, or as much as 0.5 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 30 to 31 points higher, or as much as 0.9 percent.

The S&P 500 turned positive for the year on Tuesday and rose above its 200-day moving average for the first time in a month, suggesting the recent downtrend may be nearing an end.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

Bookies see Europe stocks down on Greece downgrade

June 15 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expect leading European benchmark indexes to fall on Tuesday as a downgrade of Greece’s credit rating prompts investors to book some profits after a brisk four-session winning run. Financial spreadbetters expect Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 31 to 33 points lower, or as much as 0.6 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 26 to 30 points lower, or as much as 0.5 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 13 to 16 points lower, or as much as 0.4 percent. (Reporting by Blaise Robinson; Editing by James Regan)

Bookies see Europe stocks adding to recovery rally

June 14 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expected to see the leading European benchmark indexes rising on Monday, gaining ground for the fourth consecutive session, buoyed by gains on Wall Street and in Asia.

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Financial spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open around 35 points higher, or 0.7 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open around 40 points higher, or 0.7 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open around 15 points higher, or 0.4 percent.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

Taiwan stocks log worst pct drop in near 3 weeks

TAIPEI, May 5 (Reuters) – Taiwan stocks fell 2.95 percent on
Wednesday, their biggest one-day percentage drop in nearly three
weeks, following on from tumbles in U.S. and European bourses
amid renewed fears of contagion from Europe’s debt crisis.

Top contract chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) (TSM.N) dropped 1.97
percent, pulling the main TAIEX down 233.87 points to
7,696.90. The fall was the biggest drop since April 19 when the
TAIEX shed 3.17 percent on news of charges against Goldman Sachs.

Major indexes in the United States slid more than 2 percent
on Tuesday. [.N] Selling also spread to other stock markets in
Asia, including Hong Kong and Australia. [ID:nTOE64400A]
(US$1=T$31.5)
(Reporting by Baker Li; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)

Bookies see Europe stocks up after EU deal on Greece

PARIS, April 12 (Reuters) – Financial bookmakers expected to see the leading European benchmark indexes rally on Monday, extending the previous session’s sharp gains, after Euro zone finance ministers approved an aid plan for debt-stricken Greece.

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Financial spreadbetters expected Britain’s FTSE 100 .FTSE to open 21 to 24 points higher, or as much as 0.4 percent, Germany’s DAX .GDAXI to open 24 to 25 points higher, or as much as 0.4 percent, and France’s CAC-40 .FCHI to open 10 to 13 points higher, or as much as 0.3 percent.

Euro zone finance ministers approved a 30-billion-euro ($40 billion) emergency aid mechanism for debt-plagued Greece on Sunday, but stressed Athens had not requested the plan be activated yet. [ID:nLDE63A0BO]

The deal sent the euro leaping to its highest level in nearly a month on Monday, surging 1 percent on the dollar and yen.

(Reporting by Blaise Robinson)

CORRECTED – CORRECTED-Taiwan stocks at 9-week high close; China plays up

(Corrects stock code of Uni President in first paragraph)
(Updates closing indexes)

TAIPEI, March 29 (Reuters) – Taiwan stocks rose 0.9 percent
to a nine-week closing high on Monday, paced by gains in China
plays like Uni-President (1216.TW), with Taiwan set to kick off a
second round of negotiations with China on a free-trade deal this
week.

The main TAIEX ended up 70.59 points at 7,947.45, its
highest close since late January.

Leading the market’s gain was the food sub-index .TFII,
surging 4.22 percent, with China’s No.2 instant noodles maker
Uni-President 5.23 percent higher.

For a table of foreign trading in Taiwan stocks, double-click
on [ID:nTP170358]

Parliament removes time limit on asbestos claims

State Parliament has passed laws removing the restriction on the amount of time sufferers of asbestos-related diseases have to claim compensation.

The legislation lifts a three-year limitation for sufferers of dust-related diseases such as asbestosis, mesothelioma and silicosis to lodge a claim.

The Attorney-General Cameron Dick says it will reduce the costs associated with pursuing compensation.

“It’s no doubt that the removal of this hurdle will improve access to justice,” Mr Dick said.

The bill indexes the caps on civil damages pay-outs and allows the defacto partner of an injured person to claim damages.

Parliament has also passed legislation allowing more overseas-trained vets to teach in Queensland after a recent decline in student numbers.

MPs will return to the chamber in a fortnight.

First-ever ‘conception’ recorded on Twitter!

Melbourne, Mar 9 (ANI): A best man’s prank turned out to be an embarrassing internet extravaganza for a newlywed couple, after intimate details of them conceiving a baby were Tweeted live from their bedroom.

While the prank resulted in possibly the first-ever conception recorded on Twitter, the parents-to-be may never know thousands were watching.

The best man had allegedly created the Twitter account @newslywedsontjob to send live tweets every time the couple got active in the bedroom.

“You’ll know when it starts, when it ends, the force, a rating on the frenzy index and a judge’s comment – all broadcast live to Twitter,” News.com.au quoted the man as saying on the twitter page.

“(My best friend) stitched me up something rotten when he was my best man so I reckon this is reasonable payback,” he added.

The best man, inspired by another project that tweeted a co-worker”s flatulence, says he hooked up the bed with motion-sensing and pressure-sensitive technology for extra details.

On the first night back from their honeymoon in December, the newlyweds apparently had no idea there was an online audience.

“They’re on the job! #2 – Action commenced at 15.50GMT. Weight: 151KG,” the first bed tweet said.

Over three months, the couple recorded frenzy indexes from 2, through to 10. They frequently recorded levels of 8 or 9, and on average the bed tweeted sessions lasting 19 minutes every 3 days.

In an interview with men”s wedding website iamstaggered.com, the best man said that he planned to reveal all to his friend in February.

But his friend gave him the big news that his wife was about nine weeks pregnant.

Now, the prankster has said that he realised the conception was likely to have been tweeted and decided to dismantle the setup without telling his best mate.

“Its one thing to have a joke on him. But I’m not sure how he’d react if I told him that I’d made it so twenty-odd thousand people could watch him make a baby,” he told the website.

Calculations indicate the baby will be due in late September. (ANI)

Men with ring fingers longer than indexes run faster

Washington, Mar 14 (ANI): Men with ring fingers longer than their index fingers run faster, due to testosterone levels, says a new study.

Researchers from Southampton University have linked finger-length ratios to a host of things good and bad, from fertility and disease vulnerability to test scores and personality traits.

According to boffins, exposure to testosterone in the womb is behind the speedy kids and their finger-length ratios.

To reach the conclusion, scientists studied 241 boys aged 10 to 17 at a talent-spotting competition in Qatar. Those with longer ring fingers were faster at every stage of a 50-meter sprint race, according to an article in The Telegraph.

“The advantage they had was soon apparent after the start of the sprint and remained steady thereafter,” Live Science quoted John Manning, a researcher at Southampton University who led the study, as saying.

The study has been published in the American Journal of Human Biology.

A 2004 study in the same journal found that the farther certain paired body parts were from symmetry – one ear or foot bigger than the other, for example – the more likely a person would show signs of aggression when provoked. (ANI)