Not happy about the dearth of women in engineering? Debbie Sterling thinks overly-girlie toys are to blame.

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The British Bankers' Association released the following London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor) for dollars, euro and sterling at its daily fixing.

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The British Bankers' Association released the following London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor) for dollars, euro and sterling at its daily fixing.

LONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - The British Bankers' Association released the following London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor) for dollars, euro and sterling at its daily fixing.

By Marc Chandler:The Dollar Index is trading at new 2013 highs, encouraged by the continuing sell-off of the yen and the weaker than expected euro area GDP, which contracted by 0.2% in Q1. However, the dollar's upside momentum appears to be stalling

GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - Swiss trading house Vitol has dropped plans to bid for Canada-listed oil and gas producer Sterling Resources, Sterling said on Monday, after talks stalled over price.

GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - Swiss trading house Vitol has dropped plans to bid for Canada-listed oil and gas producer Sterling Resources, Sterling said on Monday, after talks stalled over price.

GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - Swiss trading house Vitol has dropped plans to bid for Canada-listed oil and gas producer Sterling Resources, Sterling said on Monday, after talks stalled over price.

GENEVA, May 13 (Reuters) - Swiss trading house Vitol has dropped plans to bid for Canada-listed oil and gas producer Sterling Resources, Sterling said on Monday, after talks stalled over price.

Sterling Construction (STRL)Q1 2013 Earnings CallMay 10, 2013 11:00 am ETExecutivesElizabeth D. Brumley - Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President, Controller and TreasurerPeter E. MacKenna - Chief Executive Officer, President and DirectorBr

Here's your Cheat Sheet to earnings...

Here's your Cheat Sheet to earnings...

* Spanish yields rise, weigh on euro * US jobless claims fall to lowest in more than 5 years * BoE keeps rates steady, supports sterling By Julie Haviv NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - The dollar...

* Spanish yields rise, weigh on euro * US jobless claims fall to lowest in more than 5 years * BoE keeps rates steady, supports sterling By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - The...

Sterling traded at a fresh high for the day against the dollar after the Bank of England left its monetary policy unchanged. European stocks were modestly lower.

By Marc Chandler:The news stream has been quite active, but the price action in foreign exchange has been muted. The euro has largely been confined to a 20 tick range on either side of $1.3160. Sterling is a bit firmer, in the upper end of yesterday'

Figures increase bets that central bank will not ease policy, while Australian and New Zealand dollars gain after positive labour market news

By Marc Chandler:The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee concludes its two-day meeting tomorrow. The recent data have been stronger than expected and this has boosted economists' conviction that the MPC refrain from cutting rates or resuming

French lender BNP Paribas SA (BNP.FR) is planning a benchmark-size, sterling-denominated, three-year, floating-rate note, one of the banks running the deal said Tuesday. Suggested pricing is in the area of 60 basis points over the three-month Libor.

A back-of-the-envelope valuation of the fictional advertising agency Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, circa 1968, as DealBook takes a step into Don Draper's world.

ByWilliam Sterling:Regardless of industry, the core principles of business remain the same. First, you find or develop a product or service that consumers want or need. Second, you market and sell the product. Third, you grow. In the process there ar

In the closing keynote of NEXT Berlin 2013, acclaimed science-fiction author and journalist Bruce Sterling tackled a variety of topics like design fiction, start-up culture, and the mass adoption of disruptive technology. He sees science fiction as a

With Japanese markets closed for a 4-day weekend, it was up to Europe to correct the overreaction to Draghi's comments yesterday. And correct they did, lifting the euro nearly a cent to almost $1.3140. Sterling was helped by a stronger than expected

MBA applicants at top programs are expected to have a sterling college record, and usually several years of top notch work experience. The pedigrees of some of the top students currently at Harvard Business School include stints at Google, Goldman Sa

By Marc Chandler:With most financial centers closed for the May Day celebration, the UK had the stage to largely itself in Europe and opportunity was not wasted. CIPS manufacturing PMI was stronger than expected, rising to 49.8 from an upwardly revis

By Nate Sterling:The "sell in May" seasonal pattern, as famously celebrated by the Stock Trader's Almanac and academic research papers such as Sandro Andrade et al.'s "Sell in May and go away just won't go away" and Bouman and Jacobsen's "The Hallowe

ZURICH, April 30 (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank on Tuesday published the following allocation data for its foreign exchange reserves: Foreign currency holdings, in percent: Q1 2013 Q4 2012 Dollars 27 28 Euros 48 49 Sterling 7 7 Yen 9 8 Canada dl

SINGAPORE, April 29 (Reuters) - The dollar fell broadly and sterling hit a two-month high on Monday, as traders continued to reduce their exposure to the greenback after data last week showed the...

TOKYO, April 29 (Reuters) - The dollar fell broadly and sterling hit a two-month high on Monday, as traders continued to reduce their exposure to the greenback after data last week showed the U.S....

By Marc Chandler:Over the past week, sterling, bolstered by news of a 0.3% expansion in Q1 and reduced chances of fresh BOE action before Carney takes the reins in July, was the best performing major currency. A short squeeze in the yen helped it alm

  Over the past week, sterling, bolstered by news of a 0.3% expansion in Q1 and reduced chances of fresh BOE action before Carney takes the reins in July, was the best performing major currency.  A short squeeze in the yen helped it almost

Sterling Bancorp (STL)Q1 2013 Earnings Conference CallApril 26, 2013 10:00 ETExecutivesEdward Nebb - Investor RelationsLouis Cappelli - Chairman and Chief Executive OfficerJohn Tietjen - Chief Financial OfficerAnalystsCollyn Gilbert - KBWPresentation

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - European shares fell, German Bunds rose and sterling hit a two-month high against the dollar on Friday after data showed the U.S. economy grew less than expected in the...

Famed currency investor George Soros, famous for "breaking the sterling" in the 1980's, has taken a large 7.9 percent stake in struggling retailer J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP). Soros now is long the stock along with Pershing Square's Bill Ackman and now i

* Euro pressured by ECB rate cut expectations * Dollar bid after U.S. jobless claims data * Sterling jumps to two-month high vs dollar on UK GDP data NEW YORK, April 25 (Reuters) - The dollar...

by Sterling Wong, Minyanville staff writer

* Euro hurt by ECB rate cut expectations * Dollar gains after U.S. jobless claims data * Sterling jumps to two-month high vs dollar on UK GDP data * Japan investors sellers of foreign bonds in latest...

A shift in the news stream, with more disappointing US economic news and some positive developments in Europe seemed to have begun weighing on the dollar and that shift has been solidified today. Although the dollar extended yesterday’s pullbac

ByWilliam Sterling:If your leaky roof needed repairing, would you use old dried up shingles? Of course not. You'd get brand new materials compatible with the old stuff. Take that principle and apply it to regenerative medicine, and you have a rough i

* Euro hurt by ECB rate cut expectations * Dollar gains after U.S. jobless claims data * Sterling jumps to two-month high vs dollar on UK GDP data * Japan investors sellers of foreign bonds in latest...

* Euro up but ECB rate cut expectations may check gains * Dollar gains after U.S. jobless claims data * Sterling jumps to two-month high vs dollar after UK GDP data * Data from Japan show investors...

Notes The issue size will total 1.425 billion sterling

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Surprisingly strong British growth lifted sterling on Thursday, while world shares rose for a fifth day as a recent run of weak data from other major economies raised...