Asian shares cautious as weak manufacturing data stoke growth worries
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Asian shares were choppy on Tuesday as weak global manufacturing activity reinforced worries about slowing world growth,…
Preserve your ammunition, BIS urges top central banks
LONDON (Reuters) – Bank for International Settlements (BIS) chief Agustin Carstens has urged top central banks to preserve their ammunition…
U.S. stock futures jump after U.S. and China agree to resume trade talks
Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 24, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan…
Global stocks enjoy relief rally in Asia, bonds retreat
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Stocks rallied while bonds retreated in Asia on Monday as a thaw in the Sino-U.S. trade dispute…
Halfway through 2019, tech leads on Wall Street
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology stocks are Wall Street’s top performers as 2019 hits half-way, with investors betting on lower…
Wall St. wraps up its best June in decades as G20 convenes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street advanced in heavy trading on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow closing…
Oil prices fall, but post weekly gain ahead of G20 talks, OPEC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Friday but posted their second straight week of gains ahead of trade…
Wall St. wraps up its best June in decades as G20 convenes
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street advanced in heavy trading on Friday, with the S&P 500 and the Dow closing…
Stocks advance to end first half as G20 in focus
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gauge of global stocks climbed on Friday in advance of a meeting on trade between…
Oil prices mixed ahead of U.S. crude stock data
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil prices were mixed on Tuesday ahead of data expected to show U.S. crude stocks declining, outweighing…
Wall Street sinks as hopes fade for rate cuts, trade progress
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stock indexes fell on Tuesday, led by a sharp selloff in technology shares, as…
Oil prices climb amid fall in U.S. stockpiles, Middle East worries
A pumpjack is seen at sunset outside Scheibenhard, near Strasbourg, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann SYDNEY (Reuters) – Oil…
Asia stocks slip after Fed tempers aggressive rate cut expectations
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks slipped on Wednesday and the dollar pulled back from three-month lows after Federal Reserve officials…
S&P 500 slips as healthcare drags, investors eye G20 summit
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 edged lower on Monday as losses by healthcare companies overshadowed gains in the…
Dollar falls with yields as more Fed talk awaited
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks were left adrift on Tuesday as expectations of more dovish talk from the Federal Reserve…
Bang-up week on Wall Street ends with a whimper
(Reuters) – Wall Street edged lower on Friday, as U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s decision to defer a speech on…
Wall Street Week Ahead: Investors eye G20 with hopes for U.S.-China trade detente
NEW YORK (Reuters) – All eyes will be on U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping next week…
Oil prices fall 1% as economic worries outweigh tanker tensions
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices fell more than 1% on Monday after more poor Chinese economic figures fanned fears…
All eyes on Fed as stock market pines for rate cut
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Open Market Committee meeting next week is shaping up as a pivotal one for…
Global stocks dip as Fed meeting looms, oil climbs on geopolitical fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended nominally lower on Friday as investors awaited next week’s Federal Reserve meeting for…
Wall Street ends down; Broadcom warning hits chip stocks
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended lower on Friday as investors were cautious going into next week’s Federal Reserve…
Oil tumbles on demand worries; stocks hit by trade, economic fears
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices slid 4% on Wednesday on higher U.S. crude inventories and a bleaker demand outlook,…
Wall St. slips; banks fall with prospect of rate cut, energy drops
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street ended down slightly on Wednesday, with bank stocks declining as prospects of a U.S.…
Asian stocks subdued, oil near five-month low on U.S. inventory build
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks stuttered on Thursday, dogged by the uncertainty over an intractable U.S.-China trade dispute, while oil…
Equities rally dissipates as trade optimism fades, yield curve flattens
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s indexes ended Tuesday’s session virtually unchanged after investors turned their focus to U.S.-China trade…
Wall Street treads water after recent rally
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended near flat and the Dow snapped a six-day winning streak on Tuesday, as…
Wall Street treads water after recent rally
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks ended near flat and the Dow snapped a six-day winning streak on Tuesday, as…
Wall Street rises with hopes of Mexican tariffs delay
New York (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes closed higher after a choppy session on Thursday as investors grew more…
Wall Street opens higher for second day on rate cut hopes
FILE PHOTO: Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., June 4,…
Nasdaq confirms correction, bond yields fall further
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Nasdaq confirmed it was in a correction on Monday as stocks extended their recent sell-off,…
Wall St. skids, jolted by Trump’s surprise tariff threat on Mexico
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks dropped on Friday, as the S&P 500 closed out the month with its biggest…
Struggles of transport stocks transmit caution to market
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Add this to worries about Wall Street: The index of planes, trains and trucking companies, considered…
Wall St. loses early gains as trade concerns abound
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, with initial gains giving way to declines as the likelihood…
Oil plummets, on track for biggest weekly drop in 2019
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices plunged on Thursday, losing about 5% as trade tensions dampened the demand outlook, putting…
Global shares slide on fear trade spat is now a tech cold war
NEW YORK (Reuters) – World shares skidded further on Thursday and oil prices slid more than 5% as investors worried…
Wall St. falls on trade fears, technology the biggest drag
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled on Thursday as investors dumped shares in most sectors with technology financials and energy leading…
Wall St. rises as Huawei reprieve boosts tech shares
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of technology companies helped lift Wall Street on Tuesday after the United States temporarily eased…
Wall St. falls as trade anxieties spike
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street ended lower on Friday as continuing trade tensions pulled industrial and tech shares down,…
Oil extends gains into fourth straight day on Middle East tensions
FILE PHOTO: A view shows a well head and a drilling rig in the Yarakta Oil Field, owned by Irkutsk…
Oil prices jump nearly 2% on drone attack on Saudi Aramco facilities
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose nearly 2% on Tuesday after top exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones launched…
Wall Street slides as U.S.-China trade fears rise
NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks slid on Tuesday as escalating trade tensions between the United States and China triggered…
U.S. stock futures tumble after Trump threatens China with steeper tariffs
(Reuters) – Wall Street stock index futures fell sharply on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would hike…
Wall Street Weekahead: Record-breaking rally leaving energy stocks behind
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stock market surge since the start of the year that has sent the benchmark S&P…
Stocks slip, dollar drifts after Fed cools rate cut bets
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar nursed overnight gains while Europe’s share markets struggled early on, after the U.S. central bank…
S&P 500 posts high, extends 2019 rally; Alphabet falls late
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 set an intraday record high on Monday, bolstering the view that the decade-long…
S&P 500, Nasdaq hit record closing highs on upbeat earnings
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq registered record closing highs after a broadbased rally on…
Wall Street dips ahead of earnings deluge
(Reuters) – U.S. stocks pulled back slightly on Monday as investors awaited a barrage of major earnings reports this week,…
Oil hits 2019 high on U.S. plan to tighten squeeze on Iran
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil topped $74 a barrel on Monday, the highest since November, as the United States was set…
Oil rally stalls on talk of OPEC+ boosting output
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices halted their rally on Monday, with both benchmarks down nearly 1 percent, after Russia’s…
Bank results curb Wall Street, oil falls as Russia mulls production boost
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Underwhelming quarterly results from U.S. banks limited gains in world stocks on Monday, and oil prices…
Wall Street slips as bank earnings disappoint
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street lost ground on Monday, dragged down by financials as underwhelming bank earnings curbed investor…
Asia stocks hover below nine month peak after Wall Street stalls
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks hovered below a nine-month peak on Tuesday after disappointing bank earnings dented Wall Street, though…
Industrials’ gains put to test as earnings ramp up
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors betting on industrial stocks this year have been rewarded, with the group among the best-performing…
Oil prices fall on surging U.S. crude supply, economic slowdown
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday, pressured as U.S. crude stockpiles surged to their highest levels in almost…
Asian shares pause near eight-month high, dollar weakens
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks held near eight-month highs on Thursday and the dollar slipped again on expectations global interest…
Oil prices dip on surging U.S. crude stockpiles
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell on Thursday after U.S. crude stockpiles surged to their highest levels in almost 17…
Oil gains up to 2% to five-month high as Libyan output threatened
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices rose up to 2 percent on Monday, hitting five-month highs on expectations that global…
Stocks edge higher as crude oil gains
NEW YORK – A gauge of global equities edged higher on Monday as another drop in Boeing shares and concerns…