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Asia equities gain; New Zealand hits record high
December 23rd, 2015
Asia stocks followed their Wall Street peers higher on Wednesday as investors cheered strong U.S. data, a pause in the greenback’s rally and higher oil prices. Markets in Japan were shut for the Emperor’s Birthday. The region is expected ...
December 14th To 18th: A Week Of Reckoning For Global Stocks If The Fed Hikes Interest Rates?
December 14th, 2015
Are we about to witness widespread panic in the global financial marketplace? This week is shaping up to be an absolutely critical week for global stocks. Coming into December, more than half of the 93 largest stock market indexes ...
Chinese Finance-Sector IPOs Set to Maintain Strong Presence in 2016
December 11th, 2015
After dominating in Hong Kong this year, more Chinese finance-sector IPOs are expected to come to market next year China’s banks and brokers have had a tough year with rising bad loans, a stock market crash and weak share performance. ...
Nikkei closes up, ASX hits one-month low
December 11th, 2015
Asian markets closed mixed on Friday, despite Wall Street’s positive finish overnight, as record low oil prices weighed resources plays and China shares traded in negative territory as another top executive was reported missing by local media. “Most investors ...
Falling Oil + Rising Dollar = Crisis For A Whole Lot Of People
December 10th, 2015
Oil is plunging again, this time in the wake of OPEC’s inability to limit its members’ production. The US dollar, meanwhile, is up on the divergence between Fed tightening and ECB/BoJ/BoC easing. This widening gap is a perfect storm ...
Asian stock markets end lower; economic data in focus
December 9th, 2015
Asian equities ended lower on Wednesday as major markets such as Japan and China released economic data. Oil prices also ticked up during Asian trading session after closing near six-year lows overnight. The U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were ...
Asian markets close near flat, economic data eyed
December 7th, 2015
Asian stocks lost much of their gains from the morning session to close near flat on Monday, as investors eye a host of economic data due this week. Last week, nonfarm payrolls data showed the U.S. economy created 211,000 ...
Asian markets close on three-week lows, weighed by ECB, Fed
December 4th, 2015
Asian equities slumped to three-week lows Friday, following a global sell-off overnight as investors digested comments from the Fed and the European Central Bank (ECB). Overnight, Fed chair Janet Yellen said in a testimony before Congress that recent economic ...
Chinese stocks rally on rumored mortgage tax break
December 2nd, 2015
Chinese markets rallied Wednesday afternoon on speculation of an upcoming incentive to be announced by Beijing to boost the country’s lagging property market. Elsewhere, other Asian equities ended lower on Wednesday as sentiment remained shaky in the region, with ...
Chinese Stocks: Brokerage Probes Weigh on November Stock Gains
December 1st, 2015
Three of China’s largest brokerages said they were under investigation for suspected violations of margin-trading rules A widening Chinese investigation into what officials have deemed suspicious or illegal trading activity has put the brakes on a rebound in the Shanghai Composite ...
