Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreAn interesting debate is popping up regarding the topic of capital expenditure.
Take the latest from Societe Generale’s Andrew Lapthorne and team. They argued on Thursday that the commonly held belief that companies’ capital investing ratios have been falling, whilst hoarded cash pools have been going up, is inaccurate. Read more
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 16:35 |
6,349 | -25.39 | -0.4% | 6,876 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of Jun 19 2013 17:15 |
1,180 | -3.23 | -0.3% | 1,258 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of Jun 18 2013 05:00 |
1,652 | +12.77 | +0.8% | 1,687 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of Jun 19 2013 20:00 |
1.33 | -0.01 | -0.9% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of Jun 19 2013 20:35 |
105.79 | -0.23 | -0.2% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of Jun 19 2013 20:06 |
1,360 | -7.10 | -0.5% | 1,795 |
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