World stocks rallied to their highest levels in more than a year on Wednesday, while the US dollar hit a five-month low, as expectations mounted major central banks such as the Federal Reserve will start to cut interest rates early next year. The jovial mood boosted the MSCI’s gauge of stocks acros»»»

A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Interest rate decisions and guidance from New Zealand and Thailand, and inflation figures from Australia will be the main events for Asian markets on Wednesday, as a curiously directionless week for risk assets reaches the midway point. While emerging marke»»»

Stocks drifted to a mixed finish Thursday as Wall Street’s momentum slowed following its hot first half of November. The S&P 500 edged up by 5.36 points, or 0.1%, to 4,508.24 and remains comfortably on track for its third straight winning week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped 45.74, or 0.1»»»

From the Sensex stocks, Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Finserv, M&M, ICICI Bank, and HDFC Bank opened in the red, while JSW Steel, Infosys, UltraTech Cement, Tata Steel, and ITC opened in the green. Indian equity markets traded marginally lower on Wednesday amid intensifying conflict in the Middle East and w»»»

— US home prices rose slightly in March, showing a continuing recovery, according to the latest S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index, released Tuesday. It’s the second month in a row that prices have increased, after an increase in February that snapped a seven-month streak of mo»»»

Major Asian stock exchanges sank yesterday on renewed investor concerns that a softening US economy and troubles with that country's regional lenders could slow Asia's growth. The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) fell 1.4%, the biggest single-day drop in nearly a month, in early trade yesterday, tr»»»

The stage is set for Asia to outperform other regions in the second half of 2023. Economic growth is diverging from the US, which is late in its business cycle just as China is beginning a new one. Meanwhile, developed markets continue to face challenges like stubborn inflation, the lagged impacts »»»

TEHRAN (FNA)- US stocks slipped, with investors hunkering down ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy decision on Wednesday, when the central bank is expected to raise interest rates to their highest since the 2008 financial crisis. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 finished 1.3 percent lower on Monda»»»

Jan 19 (Reuters) - U.S. stock indexes fell on Thursday after data pointing to a tight labor market sparked worries that the Federal Reserve will continue with its aggressive rate-hiking cycle that could potentially tip the economy into a recession. The Labor Department's report showed a surprise fa»»»

Asian markets closed with major losses on Monday, while European stock exchanges were in negative territory, as market sell-off intensified before the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England (BoE) meetings later this week. The Asia Dow, which includes blue-chip companies in the region, was down »»»

Asian shares drifted off on Thursday as uncertainty over the outlook for both U.S. interest rates and the chance of global fiscal stimulus sucked the life out of markets. Not helping was a fresh slide in the Chinese yuan to an 11-year low, which dealers said prompted defensive buying from state-own»»»

BENGALURU: Singapore slashed its full-year economic growth forecast on Tuesday as global conditions were seen worsening and data confirmed the slowest growth rate in a decade amid mounting fears of recession in the city-state. The government cut its forecast range for gross domestic product in Sing»»»

What do you do if you are a major Japanese investor, whose mandate is to invest in safe assets, yet the yield on Japanese govvies is too low to cover the cost of your liabilities? That's the question that Japan Post Bank Co., the banking unit of Japan Post Holdings, has been grappling with. Its ans»»»

SYDNEY - Asian share markets were mostly in the red on Wednesday as a risk-off mood gripped investors, while a frazzled pound awaited its fate ahead of yet another make-or-break parliamentary vote on Brexit. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan eased 0.4 percent in slow trade »»»

Major indexes in the Asia-Pacific region traded lower on Thursday after the United States Federal Reserve decided to raise the interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.50%. Meanwhile, the Bank of Japan decided to leave its monetary policy unchanged, with the interest rate at a negative 0.1%. The»»»