By Marc Jones | LONDON LONDON World shares set up camp at one-year peaks on Monday as a rally in Chinese stocks helped offset news that Japan’s economic growth had ground to a halt last quarter, while oil prices extended their latest rally. Europe’s main bours... More »
TOKYO An index of Asian shares gained on Thursday while the dollar eased slightly after the Federal Reserve signaled that interest rates would rise more slowly than markets had expected. Spreadbetters, however, expected Greek debt matters to reclaim the spotli... More »
LONDON World shares saw a muted end to what looks set to be their best week since April on Friday as Greek debt talks took yet another confusing turn and put European markets on the back foot. The International Monetary Fund dramatically raised the stakes in G... More »
NEW YORK Investors in U.S.-based funds pulled $597 million out of funds that specialize in commodities and precious metals in the week ended May 20, data from Thomson Reuters’ Lipper service showed on Thursday. The outflows were the biggest since December 2013... More »
NEW YORK German bond yields climbed on Tuesday on optimism that inflation may have bottomed in the euro zone, lifting demand for the euro, while volatility in global bond markets weighed on stock indexes. U.S. 10-year Treasury yields hit six-month highs before... More »
LONDON Government bonds sold off again on Tuesday, driving down stocks and helping push the euro sharply higher against the dollar. Traders struggled to explain fully the latest lurch higher in yields, which drove those on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries US1... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian stock markets retreated on Tuesday and the Australian dollar stumbled after the central bank cut interest rates for the second time in four months as the region’s growth falters in the face of slowing demand from China. Financial sp... More »
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Chinese shares fought to sustain yet another seven-year peak on Tuesday a day before the country updates on economic growth, while much of the rest of Asia took a breather after recent hefty gains. A surprise decision by Singapore’s central ... More »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Gregg Berman, an equity market structure expert who helped develop a new system for collecting critical trading data, is set to leave the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission later this month, the agency said on Wednesday. Berman, an ... More »
