Asian Stocks Down Over Dimmer Economic Outlook
By Zhang Mengying Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were down on Monday morning over a gloomy economic outlook. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.62% by 10:46 PM ET (2:46 AM GMT). South Korea’s...
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Asian Stocks Up as Expectations of A Huge Interest Rate Hike Recede
By Zhang Mengying Investing.com – Asia-Pacific stocks were mostly up on Friday morning as expectations of a 100 basis-point U.S. interest rate hike in July receded. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped...
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Bank of Korea Poised for Outsized Rate Hike: Decision Day Guide
(Bloomberg) -- A large majority of economists see the Bank of Korea raising its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage-point on Wednesday, doubling the pace of its policy tightening to...
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Abe Shooting Raises Policy Doubts From Analysts as Yen Gains
(Bloomberg) -- Investors reflexively sought haven assets after reports that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe collapsed amid the sound of gunshots at a political event Friday. The...
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China’s Economy Improves in June From Lockdown-Induced Slump
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economy showed some improvement in June as Covid restrictions were gradually eased, although the recovery remains muted. That’s the outlook based on Bloomberg’s...
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Hong Kong Raises Benchmark Rate For Third Time After Fed Hike
(Bloomberg) -- The Hong Kong Monetary Authority raised its benchmark interest rate for a third time this year, in line with US Federal Reserve’s tightening move.The central bank’s base rate...
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Asian Stocks Mix, Fears of Stagflation Caused by Tightening Policies Grows
By Zhang Mengying Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were mixed on Wednesday morning. U.S. equity markets continued the loss ahead of a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting that is expected to...
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Wall Street Floats 100 Basis-Point Fed Hike as Inflation Stings
(Bloomberg) -- Pockets of Wall Street are raising the possibility that the Federal Reserve could go to extreme lengths on Wednesday in an attempt to control the hottest US inflation in four...
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China’s Economic Slump Shows No Signs of Bottoming Out in May
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economy remained deep in a slump in May as lockdowns continued to weigh on activity, and as the threat of omicron and expanded restrictions dampened sentiment. That’s...
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European Stock Futures Higher; Corporate Earnings Deluge Continues
By Peter Nurse Investing.com - European stock markets are expected to open higher Thursday as investors await the latest moves in the spat with Russia over gas supplies to Europe while...
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Gold’s Surge on War Headlines May Be Fleeting as Past Shows
(Bloomberg) -- Gold’s surge on the back of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may be short-lived, if history is anything to go by. From the Falkland Islands War in 1982 to the Sept. 11 attacks,...
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European Stocks Mixed; Investors Digest Ukraine Situation, Corporate Earnings
By Peter Nurse Investing.com -- European stock markets traded in a mixed fashion Thursday, as investors digest the fraught situation on the Ukraine border, the minutes of the last Federal...
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Asian Stocks Down, Hawkish Fed Policy Decision “Largely as Expected”
By Gina Lee Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were down on Thursday morning, with U.S. Treasuries trimming a fall. Investors continued to digest U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome...
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Asian Stocks Up, Investors Digest Cut in Chinese Benchmark Lending Rate
By Gina Lee Investing.com – Asia Pacific stocks were mostly up on Thursday morning after China’s central bank cut its benchmark lending rate. Japan’s Nikkei 225 gained 0.57% by 10:06 PM ET...
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Carbon Offsets Have an Integrity Problem. COP26 May Help Fix It
(Bloomberg) -- The global agreement reached at the United Nations’ COP26 summit in Glasgow last weekend may help solve one of the trickiest problems in climate policy: how to boost...
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Dollar Down, Inflation Data Looms as Next Test on Central Bank Interest Rate Hikes
By Gina Lee Investing.com – The dollar was down on Tuesday morning in Asia, remaining a little below 2021's peaks hit on Tuesday. Cryptocurrencies scaled records, while inflation numbers...
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Dollar Up, RBA Keeps Interest Rate Unchanged in Latest Policy Decision
By Gina Lee Investing.com – The dollar was up on Tuesday morning in Asia, remaining below recent highs as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) led key central banks in handing down their...
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Whatever Happens to Evergrande, Nobody Wants to Short the Yuan
(Bloomberg) -- The highly public unraveling of China Evergrande Group is shaking markets worldwide, but analysts are confident the nation’s own currency will be spared. The yuan has been the...
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Bankers Hurry to Reassure Market About Their Evergrande Exposure
(Bloomberg) -- European bankers have spent the past few days reassuring investors, clients and regulators about any fallout from China Evergrande Group as questions swirl about the world’s...
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Tapering Debate, Climate Change, Bitcoin - What's Moving Markets
By Peter Nurse Investing.com -- The Federal Reserve tapering debate intensifies, while the corporate earnings season continues. Companies look to address the climate change issue, while...
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Markets Glued to China’s Politburo Meeting for Policy Clues
(Bloomberg) -- After a week of market turmoil, China watchers are looking for signals from a key Politburo meeting this week on whether there’s more pain to come and if the central bank will...
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Dollar Down, but Stablilzes Ahead of Fed Policy Decision
By Gina Lee Investing.com – The dollar was down on Tuesday morning in Asia, remaining below record highs. The U.S. Federal Reserve will meet to hand down its latest policy decision,...
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Gold Regains Shine After Central Bank Buying Drops to Decade Low
(Bloomberg) -- Central banks may be regaining their appetite for buying gold after staying on the sidelines for the past year. Central banks from Serbia to Thailand have been adding to gold...
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OPEC Meeting, Jobless Claims, President Xi, Bitcoin - What's Moving Markets
By Peter Nurse Investing.com --OPEC meets with Russia and others to decide whether or not to raise oil output, U.S. initial jobless claims are due; Bitcoin starts receiving official...
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China’s Recovery Stabilized in June With Signs of Rebalancing
(Bloomberg) -- Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. China’s economy showed signs of more balanced expansion in June, with solid...
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China’s PBOC Leads the Fed in Weaning the Economy Off Stimulus
(Bloomberg) -- China’s central bank is a step ahead of its U.S. counterpart in reining in its Covid-19 emergency stimulus, relieving potential market pressure from the Federal Reserve’s...
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Blue-Chip Firms Ramp Up Debt Sales While the Going Is Still Good
(Bloomberg) -- High-grade companies and banks are borrowing at an increasingly rapid clip as signs accumulate that the best funding conditions since 2007 may not last. Monday’s onslaught of...
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Korea Eyes New Extra Budget as Central Bank Flags Stimulus Exit
(Bloomberg) -- South Korea is keeping its fiscal spigot open even as a quickening economic recovery prompts the central bank to signal it will rein in stimulus at some point. Finance...
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Bitcoin Rebounds as Crypto Bloodbath Attracts Bargain Hunters
By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – Bitcoin rebounded Monday, as investors swooped in to buy the battered crypto in a sign the selling has likely bottomed as fears of regulatory crackdown in...
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Covid Outbreaks in Bangkok Prisons Push Thai Cases to New Record
(Bloomberg) -- Thailand recorded the highest single-day increase in coronavirus cases with new clusters emerging in Bangkok’s prisons, complicating the fight to quell the worst outbreak to...
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China’s Economy Continues Booming After Record First Quarter
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economy continued to boom in April from the record growth in the first quarter, with strong exports and rising business confidence supporting the recovery. That’s the...
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New Lithium Giant Emerges to Feed Surging Battery Demand
(Bloomberg) -- A planned $3.1 billion merger of two Australian miners is set to create one of the world’s biggest producers of lithium products key to meeting fast-growing global demand for...
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China’s Industrial Strength Drives Economic Rebound In March
(Bloomberg) -- China’s economic rebound continued in March, as factory activities accelerated amid strong global orders and recovering domestic demand, leading to a surge in producer...
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NPC: What We Learned From China’s Biggest Political Meeting
(Bloomberg) -- China’s highest-profile political meeting of the year concluded Thursday, with the government laying out economic plans to manage risks now that a recovery from the...
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Oil Deepens Retreat After Recent Rally Flashes Technical Warning
(Bloomberg) -- Oil pulled back from recent multi-year highs after technical indicators showed crude rallied too far too fast.Futures in New York fell 1.6% on Tuesday in choppy trading....
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Brace for Wild Swings in China’s Data Distorted by Lockdowns
(Bloomberg) -- China watchers are in for a wild ride of economic data in the early months of 2021, giving a largely distorted picture of the recovery from coronavirus shutdowns a year...
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Cargill, Deutsche Bank Among Firms Taiwan Accuses of FX Speculation
(Bloomberg) -- Cargill Inc and Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE:DB) are among a group of major foreign companies under probe in Taiwan for speculating on the surging local currency last year,...
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China’s Consumer Prices Gain in December After Brief Deflation
(Bloomberg) -- China’s consumer prices rose in December after briefly declining in the previous month, while factory gate deflation eased further, providing more evidence of the country’s...
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Oil Pares Gains With U.S. Capitol Protests Shaking Risk Appetite
(Bloomberg) -- Oil pared gains late in the session as protests in Washington overtook the U.S. Capitol, overshadowing a draw in U.S. crude inventories and Saudi Arabia’s surprise pledge to...
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