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Asia shares up after Wall St recovers from Ukraine-driven slide
August 18th, 2014
Asian stocks stalled and the dollar sagged against the safe-haven yen on Monday, as another bout of tensions in the Ukrainian conflict sapped investor confidence. Spreadbetters are picking European shares, which already had a chance on Friday to absorb ...
Asia shares up as investors bank on more stimulus
August 14th, 2014
Asian shares pushed higher on Thursday after a flood of soft economic data led investors to wager on a ceaseless fountain of stimulus from major central banks, sending bond yields tumbling across the globe. An economic contraction in Japan, ...
German Investor Confidence Slumps
August 13th, 2014
German investor confidence fell to the lowest level since 2012 as the crisis in Ukraine and a sluggish euro-area recovery damp the outlook for Europe’s largest economy. The ZEW Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim said its index ...
Gold Remains Close to $1310 as Geopolitical Concerns Weigh
August 13th, 2014
Gold ended modestly higher on Tuesday, supported after two days of declines by signs that the stand-off between Russia and Ukraine was hurting economic confidence in the euro zone economy. Analyst and investor morale in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, ...
Overview on shares and stocks
August 13th, 2014
Markets are called partially lower this morning as investors reflect on the geopolitical crisis in Ukraine, Iraq and Gaza. The FTSE is called flat at 6,633, the German Dax is seen down nine points at 9,172 and the French ...
Yen Weakens From 3-Week High on Reduced Haven Demand
August 12th, 2014
The yen weakened for a second day against the dollar as easing tensions in Ukraine reduced demand for the currency as a haven. The euro fell toward the lowest since November versus the greenback before data this week that ...
Asia stocks rose on Wall St. rally, dollar firm after rebound
August 11th, 2014
Asian stocks rose on Monday as tensions eased slightly in Ukraine, while the dollar held steady against the safe-haven yen after rebounding sharply late last week. Spreadbetters expected the upbeat momentum for equities to continue into Europe, with Britain’s ...
The Global Economy’s Groundhog Day
August 8th, 2014
In the movie “Groundhog Day,” a television weatherman, played by Bill Murray, awakes every morning at 6:00 to relive the same day. A similar sense of déjà vu has pervaded economic forecasting since the global economic crisis began a ...
Japan stocks sink 3% on global tensions
August 8th, 2014
U.S. stock futures were seeing red on Friday as stocks in Japan traded sharply lower. Jitters over the crises in Iraq and Ukraine appeared to be denting investor sentiment. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index led Asian declines, sliding almost 3% ...
DAX drops on a weak German Data and Russian sanctions
August 7th, 2014
Germany’s benchmark stock index entered correction territory on Wednesday, hitting a low of 9030.72 points—10.15 percent down from a high point on June 20. Strategists blamed the worsening situation in Ukraine, and weak data out of Germany. The DAX ...
