Archive for the August 24, 2019
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Treasury yields rose on Thursday after two Federal Reserve officials said they saw no reason to cut interest rates without new economic deterioration, a day after Fed meeting minutes showed policymakers disagreed on the US
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Treasury yields rose on Thursday after two Federal Reserve officials said they saw no reason to cut interest rates without new economic deterioration, a day after Fed meeting minutes showed policymakers disagreed on the US
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Australian shares posted their first weekly gain in four weeks on Friday, as significant gains in real estate firms pushed the benchmark higher although fears of an impending global recession and the festering Sino-US trade
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Indian shares rebounded to end higher on Friday, after three sessions of declines, as investors awaited an official announcement later in the day amid expectations of a fiscal stimulus to revive growth in Asia's third-largest
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European shares fell on Friday after US President Donald Trump furiously reacted to China's latest imposition of tariffs on certain US goods, while a lack of direction in the US central bank's rate outlook somewhat
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Nigerian stocks extended their rally on Friday to a three-week high following President Muhammed Buhari's inauguration of cabinet ministers, boosting hopes for reforms that could lift growth for Africa's biggest economy, traders said. Nigeria's economy
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Singapore stocks declined on Friday as authorities trimmed full-year inflation forecast towards the lower half of their guidance range, while last-minute buying in blue chips saw Philippine shares reverse course to end higher. The city
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London's main share index handed back its early gains to end lower on Friday after US President Donald Trump's tweeted "order" that US companies shut operations in China, which dragged internationally exposed miners and banks
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India is rolling back recent tax hikes on foreign and domestic equity investors and is accelerating a capital infusion of $10 billion into state-run banks, the finance minister said late on Friday, in an attempt
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Malaysian authorities seized over three tonnes of cocaine and ketamine worth $161 million, officials said Friday, the biggest drug seizure in the country's history. Customs officials and police had found 467 kilograms (1,030 pounds) of
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