Archive for the January 31, 2018
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China stocks extended losses on Tuesday, led by real estate and banking firms, as investors pocketed gains after a selloff in Apple shares knocked Wall Street. At the close, the Shanghai Composite index was down
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European shares fell back on Tuesday as global markets took a risk-averse turn, with cyclical sectors including mining and financials suffering the sharpest losses. Europe's STOXX 600 ended down 0.9 percent, suffering its biggest one-day
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Australian shares dipped on Tuesday to close at their lowest in more than a week, after global equity markets fell on hawkish remarks by a European Central Bank official, fuelling expectations for stimulus cuts as
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Most Southeast Asian stock markets finished lower on Tuesday tracking broader Asia, which retreated from record highs after a spike in global bond yields dented appetite for riskier assets, with the Philippines and Indonesia losing
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The UK's top share index fell to five-week lows on Tuesday as investors took profits on miners and banks, so-called cyclical sectors which have enjoyed a strong start to 2018. The blue chip FTSE 100
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Ryanair said Tuesday it has signed an agreement to recognise the British Airline Pilots Association that reverses its historic hostility towards trade unions. "This is the first formal union recognition agreement Ryanair has signed," a
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US President Donald Trump's trade chief rejected Canadian proposals for unblocking NAFTA modernization talks on Monday but pledged to seek "breakthroughs" by late February, easing concerns that Washington would soon withdraw from the trilateral pact.
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IMF chief Christine Lagarde warned Tuesday that "public dissatisfaction is bubbling up" in the Middle East and North Africa, calling for reforms that "respond faster to the expectations and sometimes to the frustration of the
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Britain's housing market lost momentum last month as lenders approved the fewest mortgages in nearly three years following the Bank of England's first interest rate hike since the global financial crisis. At the same time,
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An Egyptian court imposed a $22 million fine Tuesday on Qatari-owned sports broadcaster BeIN Sports and its chief executive for violating anti-trust regulations. The broadcaster and CEO Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who is also president of the
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