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Dollar Slips on Fed Rate Outlook; Yen Hovers Near 160

Dollar Slips on Fed Rate Outlook; Yen Hovers Near 160

The dollar inched lower on Monday, but remained near a roughly two-week high, as markets ramped up bets on a rate hike ​after hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh and renewed Gulf tensions, while the yen traded near the closely watched ‌160-per-dollar level. The U.S. c...


August 31, 2026
India’s ONGC to Invest $10.5B in Deepwater Exploration
India’s ONGC to Invest $10.5B in Deepwater Exploration

India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp aims to invest 1 trillion ​rupees ($10.51 billion) over five years to explore its local deepwater...

Gold Slips to near Two-Week Low on Fed Rate Hike Bets
Gold Slips to near Two-Week Low on Fed Rate Hike Bets

Gold fell on ‌Monday, hovering near a two-week low, as investors assessed growing expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike following...

OpenAI's Ad Business Hits $1 bln Annualized Revenue Run Rate
OpenAI's Ad Business Hits $1 bln Annualized Revenue Run Rate

OpenAI on Monday said ChatGPT Ads, the company's advertising business, has reached $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate, ​as adoption...

Shein Prices Hong Kong IPO at Midpoint, Raises $1.74B
Shein Prices Hong Kong IPO at Midpoint, Raises $1.74B

Shein on Monday priced its ​initial public offering in Hong Kong ‌at the midpoint of its marketed range, raising HK$13.60 billion ($1.74...

Nvidia to Invest $3.5B in MediaTek, Expand Partnership
Nvidia to Invest $3.5B in MediaTek, Expand Partnership

Nvidia said on Monday it was investing $3.5 billion in Taiwan's MediaTek, the latest deal to widen its financial ties ​across the AI...

High Food Inflation May Curb Non-Food Spending in India
High Food Inflation May Curb Non-Food Spending in India

Higher food inflation ​could squeeze spending on non-food ‌discretionary items by absorbing a larger share of household disposable income, the...

China Reins In Yuan as Weak Domestic Demand Clouds Outlook
China Reins In Yuan as Weak Domestic Demand Clouds Outlook

China is slowing down a long rally in the yuan and is likely to keep further currency gains to a minimum this year, market participants say, as...

Shein Shares Fall more than 10% in Pre-Debut Trading
Shein Shares Fall more than 10% in Pre-Debut Trading

Shares of online fast-fashion retailer Shein slumped more ​than 10% in gray-market trading on Monday, ‌one day ahead of its Hong Kong...

Europe Stocks Edge Lower as Oil Jumps; Monthly Gain in Sight
Europe Stocks Edge Lower as Oil Jumps; Monthly Gain in Sight

European shares inched ​lower on Monday as fresh U.S.-Iran military strikes pushed oil prices and bond yields higher, while ‌the benchmark...

European Bankers Fear More Turbulence in U.S. Relations
European Bankers Fear More Turbulence in U.S. Relations

Europe's central bankers are leaving an annual getaway with their U.S. counterparts far from reassured that long-standing norms in global...

Oil Rises as US, Iran Resume Military Attacks
Oil Rises as US, Iran Resume Military Attacks

Oil prices were trading nearly 2% higher on Monday after the U.S. attacked ‌an Iranian island in the Strait of Hormuz and drew retaliation...

Shares Ease in Asia as Oil Climbs, Yields Stay High
Shares Ease in Asia as Oil Climbs, Yields Stay High

Share markets slipped in Asia on Monday as fresh fighting broke out between the U.S. and Iran, ​lifting oil prices, while bond yields...

Swiss Bankers Expect SNB to Hold Rates Through 2027
Swiss Bankers Expect SNB to Hold Rates Through 2027

Swiss bankers expect the Swiss National Bank to keep ​its key interest rate on ‌hold at 0% this year and into 2027, according to a survey by...

Foreign Investment in Germany Rose 50% in 2025, IW Says
Foreign Investment in Germany Rose 50% in 2025, IW Says

Foreign direct investment in Germany rose by 50% in ​2025 compared with the previous year, helped ‌by a surge in inflows from Britain that...

Star Entertainment Sees Tough Conditions After Annual Loss
Star Entertainment Sees Tough Conditions After Annual Loss

Australian casino operator Star Entertainment reported a bigger-than-expected annual loss on Monday and warned that conditions would stay...

Toyota, Honda May Foot Bill for Trump’s Canada Tariffs
Toyota, Honda May Foot Bill for Trump’s Canada Tariffs

U.S. President Donald Trump ​is targeting Ottawa with a proposed 50% tariff on Canadian car imports — but Japan's...

Wall Street Falls as Fed’s Warsh Vows Inflation Fight
Wall Street Falls as Fed’s Warsh Vows Inflation Fight

Wall ​Street's main indexes ended lower on Friday, with investors turning cautious after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh reiterated the...

US-Taiwan Ties ‘Never Been Stronger’, Top Diplomat Says
US-Taiwan Ties ‘Never Been Stronger’, Top Diplomat Says

The U.S.-Taiwan relationship has "never been stronger" and Taiwan is helping to re-industrialise the United States with its tech...

China’s Top 3 Airlines Hit by H1 Losses as Fuel Shock Bites
China’s Top 3 Airlines Hit by H1 Losses as Fuel Shock Bites

China's three biggest state-owned airlines reported first-half losses for the seventh consecutive year, battered by surging jet fuel prices,...

Barclays Sees Two More Fed Rate Hikes After Warsh Speech
Barclays Sees Two More Fed Rate Hikes After Warsh Speech

Barclays expects the U.S. Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points ​in September and again in December after Chair Kevin...

August 28, 2026
US Job Growth Revised Modestly Downward in BLS Data
US Job Growth Revised Modestly Downward in BLS Data

U.S. employment grew slightly less than previously estimated in the 12 months through March, the government said on Friday, suggesting the modest...

Russia's Gazprom Posts 12% Fall in First-Half Profit
Russia's Gazprom Posts 12% Fall in First-Half Profit

Russian gas producer Gazprom's first-half profit reached 864 billion roubles ($10 billion) around 12% lower than a year ​ago, the company...

PayPal Stock Sinks as Advent-Stripe Bid Collapses
PayPal Stock Sinks as Advent-Stripe Bid Collapses

PayPal shares fell 12% in ​morning trading on Friday, after reports that a consortium of buyout firm Advent International and payment...

Pasqal Shares Leap as French Quantum Firm Makes Nasdaq Debut
Pasqal Shares Leap as French Quantum Firm Makes Nasdaq Debut

Aug 28 (Reuters) - Shares of French quantum-computing company Pasqal rose by as much as 73% ​in their Nasdaq debut on Friday before paring gains to...

Gap Climbs on Old Navy Leadership Shift, Higher Outlook
Gap Climbs on Old Navy Leadership Shift, Higher Outlook

Gap's shares jumped as much as 24.1% to a four-month ​high, after the apparel retailer named industry veteran Michael Francis as CEO of...

Canada Q2 Economy Surges on Strong Domestic Demand, Exports
Canada Q2 Economy Surges on Strong Domestic Demand, Exports

Canada's economy rebounded sharply ​in the second quarter after six months of virtually no growth, aided by a strong jump in exports and solid...

Blackstone Offers to Sell Up to 25% of India's Knowledge REIT for over $1B
Blackstone Offers to Sell Up to 25% of India's Knowledge REIT for over $1B

Blackstone has proposed to sell up ​to 25.03% of Indian real estate investment ‌trust Knowledge Realty Trust in an offer for sale,...

Institutional Investors Up Asia Private Credit Allocations
Institutional Investors Up Asia Private Credit Allocations

Institutional investors are increasing allocations to private credit in Asia. Granite Asia raised more than $500 million for a pan-Asian strategy...

US Stock Funds See Largest Weekly Outflow Since March
US Stock Funds See Largest Weekly Outflow Since March

U.S. equity funds recorded their largest weekly outflow in five months in the week to August 26, ​as investors reassessed the outlook for...

India July Output Growth Slows to 6.7% as Mining Drops
India July Output Growth Slows to 6.7% as Mining Drops

India's industrial output growth slowed to 6.7% year-on-year in July, data ​showed on Friday, as mining activity contracted, with...

Japan Spent Record $96.5B to Support Yen Over Past Month
Japan Spent Record $96.5B to Support Yen Over Past Month

Japanese authorities spent a ​record 15.4 trillion yen ($96.5 billion) intervening in foreign exchange markets over the past month to...

India's Markets Regulator Approves Jio Platforms' $3.8B IPO
India's Markets Regulator Approves Jio Platforms' $3.8B IPO

India's markets regulator approved billionaire Mukesh Ambani-owned Jio Platforms' $3.8 ​billion initial public offering on Friday,...

London Stocks Rise Ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech
London Stocks Rise Ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech

UK stocks edged higher on Friday as investors digested several corporate updates and awaited Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's speech at the...

Pound Heads for Weekly Loss, Focus on Jackson Hole Symposium
Pound Heads for Weekly Loss, Focus on Jackson Hole Symposium

Sterling was headed for its first weekly drop ​against the dollar in more than a month on Friday as expectations for a Bank ‌of England...

Google Changes Spam Policy in EU to Avert Antitrust Fine
Google Changes Spam Policy in EU to Avert Antitrust Fine

Alphabet's Google on Friday said it had changed its spam policy, opens new tab in Europe to ​address EU concerns that could have...

Oil Flat, Set for Weekly Loss on Stalled US-Iran Talks
Oil Flat, Set for Weekly Loss on Stalled US-Iran Talks

Oil prices held steady on Friday but were on track for a weekly drop as traders weighed stagnant U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks against some crude...

Gold Inches Up Ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech
Gold Inches Up Ahead of Warsh's Jackson Hole Speech

Gold prices ticked up on Friday, with ​investors looking out for Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's remarks at the ‌Jackson Hole...

Dollar Heads for Weekly Gain as Warsh Remarks Awaited
Dollar Heads for Weekly Gain as Warsh Remarks Awaited

The U.S. dollar held firm near a one-week high against major peers ​on Friday, as investors stood on the sidelines ahead of Federal...

German Unemployment Rises Slightly Less than Expected in Aug
German Unemployment Rises Slightly Less than Expected in Aug

The number of unemployed people in Germany rose slightly less ​than expected in August, labour office figures showed ‌on Friday. In...

China's Factory Activity Seen Contracting Again in August
China's Factory Activity Seen Contracting Again in August

China's factory activity is expected to have contracted for a second straight month in ​August, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, indicating...

Shares Cautious, FX and Bonds Hold Breath Ahead of Warsh
Shares Cautious, FX and Bonds Hold Breath Ahead of Warsh

Shares in Asia turned cautious on Friday after a Nvidia-fuelled technology rally, while currency and bond markets held their breath for the...

S. Korea Aug Exports Up on Strong Chip Demand: Poll
S. Korea Aug Exports Up on Strong Chip Demand: Poll

South Korean exports likely extended their robust growth in August to mark a 15th consecutive ​month of gains, driven by surging global demand...


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