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Japanese markets were reeling on Friday, with the Nikkei heading for its biggest weekly drop in a year while bonds have been battered and the yen...

The Nasdaq ended sharply higher on Thursday after Alphabet and Advanced Micro Devices sparked a megacap rally on fresh optimism about artificial...

A U.S. market rally in equities and bonds in November led global hedge funds to post their best monthly performance since January, although it...

U.S. stocks ended down on Wednesday, pulled lower by megacaps and energy shares as signs of a cooling jobs market reinforced expectations that the...

Asian shares fell with Wall Street on Thursday, while a sharp fall in oil prices to a six-month low and a soft reading on the U.S. labour market...

Asia-Pacific equities gained on Wednesday as bets firmed for a peak in interest rates among major central banks globally, pushing down bond...

Wall Street finished mixed on Tuesday after fresh employment data bolstered bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates as soon as...

Asian stocks slipped to three-week lows and Hong Kong's unloved Hang Seng index slumped to a one-year trough on Tuesday while bonds and the...

U.S. stocks ended lower on Monday, interrupting last week's rally, as investors turned cautious ahead of employment data due this week that...

Asian shares turned mixed on Monday while gold spiked to all-time peaks above $2,100 at the start of a busy week for economic data that will test...

Asian shares edged lower, starting the last month of the year on a weak note after recent rally, although anticipated interest rate cuts in Europe...

U.S. stocks edged lower on Wednesday as a robust upward GDP revision eased recession fears, while Federal Reserve officials' remarks raised...

Asian stocks rose on Thursday to clock their strongest performance in 10 months, as investor sentiment warmed on a relatively benign global...

Wall Street's three main indexes rose on Wednesday as U.S. Treasury yields slipped to multi-month lows on growing rate cut optimism, while...

U.S. stocks ended with modest gains on Tuesday as investors parsed conflicting remarks from Federal Reserve officials, with upbeat consumer data...

Asian stocks nudged higher on Tuesday, while the dollar wallowed near three-month lows as investors remained convinced the Federal Reserve was done...

Asian shares slipped on Monday ahead of potentially market-moving inflation data from the United States and Europe later in the week, and a meeting...

Earlier this fall, Morgan Stanley bought $300 million worth of protection against losses on some of its loans from Blackstone Group and...

U.S. stocks were poised for a largely muted open on Friday in a shortened trading session for Thanksgiving, while investors focused on retailers to...

Asian shares were dragged lower by losses in China on Friday and in the absence of guidance from Wall Street, which was closed for the Thanksgiving...

Asian shares were flat on Thursday with markets holding onto their gains for the week as confidence grows that interest rates globally will head...

Wall Street's main indexes rose on Wednesday, helped by bets that the Federal Reserve had reached the end of its rate hikes and a slide in...

Asian stocks backed away from 2-1/2-month highs on Wednesday and the dollar found support as investors' tempered some of their earlier...

Asian shares climbed to fresh two-month highs on Tuesday, taking cues from a rally on Wall Street while the dollar languished near its lowest in...

Wall Street's three major stock averages closed higher on Monday with Nasdaq's 1% rally leading the charge as heavyweight Microsoft hit a...

Japanese shares hit highs not seen since 1990 on Monday as strong earnings and offshore demand fuelled a three-week winning streak, while the yuan...

U.S. investors were big buyers of equity funds in the seven days through Nov. 15, spurred by expectations that the Federal Reserve may pause its...

Asian shares took a breather on Friday as a batch of softer U.S. economic data took some of the steam out of Wall Street, but also boosted bonds in...

Wall Street's main indexes drifted lower on Thursday, weighed down by a drop in shares of Cisco and Walmart following underwhelming forecasts,...

Foreign investors were major buyers of Japanese equities last week, buoyed by robust corporate earnings and a broader global market rally amid...

Asian stocks fell on Thursday pausing the heavy gains made this week, as fresh Chinese data showed prolonged weakness in the property sector and...

U.S. stocks closed slightly higher on Wednesday, as fresh inflation data reinforced investor hopes that the Federal Reserve is done raising...

Wall Street's main stock indexes climbed on Tuesday as cooler-than-expected inflation data boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve was...

Asian shares edged higher on Tuesday ahead of a crucial U.S. inflation report that could heavily influence the Federal Reserve's policy...

The cyber hack of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's U.S. broker-dealer was so extensive on Wednesday, even the corporate email stopped...

A tick up in U.S. Treasury yields on Monday helped send the dollar to a fresh one-year high against the yen, while scuppering an early tech-led...

Wall Street's main indexes ended with big gains on Friday, boosted by heavyweight tech and growth stocks as Treasury yields calmed, while...

Asian stocks fell to their lowest in a week on Friday, while the dollar was steady as elevated Treasury yields weighed on sentiment after hawkish...

U.S. stocks closed lower on Thursday, snapping the longest winning streaks for the Nasdaq and S&P 500 in two years, as Treasury yields climbed...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq eked out small gains on Wednesday to extend their recent winning streaks as investors weighed Federal Reserve...

Asian share markets rallied on Thursday and the dollar firmed, even as global investors again sold off the troubled mainland Chinese property...

Treasury yields and the dollar hovered above multi-week lows on Wednesday as markets grappled with the possibility of another U.S. interest rate...