HSBC Holding News

There is little doubt growth for banks is in the Asian markets, and to that end HSBC Holdings A will soon be listed on the Shanghai stock exchange.

As today's market news unfolds Rothman Research begun tracking the following companies Barclays plc , Itau Unibanco Holding SA , HSBC Holdings plc , ProLogis , NYSE Euronext and People's United Financial Inc.

Marsh & McLennan plans to acquire HSBC Insurance Brokers, a unit of the U.K.'s HSBC , for 135 million pounds in stock and cash.

Marsh & McLennan Cos. said Friday its insurance brokerage business will acquire the brokerage unit of HSBC Bank for about $218 million in stock and cash.

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Shanghai and Shenzhen, the mainland's two exchanges, were last month joined by Chi-Next, a new board for start-up companies that has been dubbed China's Nasdaq.

If the first few days of a month can be an indication of how well an industry can perform by the months' end, then this December '09 should be a great month for the outsourcing industry barring any mishap of course.

Banking group Standard Chartered moved to reassure investors Wednesday, saying it expects to report a strong performance for 2009 and that its exposure to Dubai shouldn't lead to significant losses.

Singapore's economy and related ETF have been constrained by a serious dearth in export demand.

By Martin Flanagan BANKING giant HSBC has moved into pole position to buy the remainder of the Asian retail and commercial banking assets that Royal Bank of Scotland has put up for sale, sources said yesterday.

HSBC chairman Stephen Green said the financial community is 'breathing a collective sigh of relief' as the festive season approaches and the global economy looks far healthier than it did this time last year.

"We have signed a deal to sell our retail and small and medium enterprises business in India, China and Malaysia to HSBC," the Web site quoted a senior RBS official as saying on condition of anonymity.

Now that U.S. President Barack Obama has given fresh impetus to climate-change negotiations in Copenhagen, corporate leaders supporting an agreement to control greenhouse-gas emissions are pressing anew for action.

Although they're not anywhere near at risk as their British counterparts, Citigroup Inc.

Broad selling pressure undercut the stock market and left it to trade with modest losses.

Good interview here with Arjuna Mahendran from HSBC . While markets appear to have panicked over the Dubai news, this default would actually be a very small bump in the road, in terms of the bigger picture.

Black Friday got a little darker for Dubai as the nation requested a six-month stand-still agreement on its debt.

Focus this week may remain on the fallout from the potential Dubai debt default, which saw the Hang Seng Index lose 1,000 points on Friday.

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