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Asian Shares Mixed, Falling in Japan But Rising in China
December 21st, 2015
Japan faced worries over the future of quantitative easing, while Property and Brokerage shares surged in China Shares in Japan fell Monday amid worries that the central bank will be reluctant to expand its easing program in the coming ...
Asian markets trade mixed; Japan shares spike on BOJ
December 18th, 2015
Major markets in Asia were mixed on Friday after wavering between positive and negative territory as investors focused on economic data, central bank decisions and commodity prices. The Japanese market took a wild ride, erasing early losses and spiking ...
Shares climb, dollar dips as Fed prepares to lift rates
December 16th, 2015
Shares and bond markets rose and the dollar dipped on Wednesday, as investors readied for what is expected to be the first rise in U.S. interest rates in almost a decade. After more than a year of posturing and ...
Asia shares fall on China caution, yuan jumpy ahead of IMF decision
November 30th, 2015
Asian shares fell on Monday as Chinese stocks extended last week’s sharp losses, while the yuan bounced in volatile trade hours ahead of an IMF decision on whether to promote it to a basket of global reserve currencies. MSCI’s ...
China Shares Fall Sharply as Regulators Investigate Brokers
November 27th, 2015
Chinese officials have ramped up scrutiny of the securities industry Chinese authorities’ investigations into two major Chinese brokerages over suspected violations drove shares in Shanghai sharply lower Friday. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 4.6% to 3468.13, wiping out most ...
Asia Pacific shares fall sharply in wake of Paris attacks and Japanese recession
November 16th, 2015
Global security concerns saw the euro hit a six-month low and stocks were sold off around the region as Japan entered a ‘quintuple dip’ recession Stock markets in Asia Pacific have fallen sharply in the wake of the Paris terror ...
Asian shares rangebound amid gloomy oil outlook
November 12th, 2015
Pedestrians walk past a share prices board showing the numbers on the Nikkei 225 at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan. Asian equities were lackluster on Thursday, with weakening commodity prices, concerns over a slower-growing China and a ...
Asian shares mixed on BOJ decision, China’s child policy change
October 30th, 2015
Asian shares mostly regained their footing on Friday, following the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) decision to stand pat on its monetary policy and as China‘s scrapping of its one-child policy bolstered dairy and baby products makers. Major U.S. averages finished lower overnight, ...
Asian shares get a fillip from ECB stimulus hopes
October 23rd, 2015
Asian share markets advanced on Friday, tracking offshore gains following hints of new stimulus from the European Central Bank (ECB). ECB President Mario Draghi signaled on Thursday that the central bank is prepared to undertake another large stimulus package to tackle the lackluster ...
Asia shares lag behind Nikkei, euro firm for ECB
October 21st, 2015
Asian shares turned mixed on Wednesday as soft export data kept investors cautious ahead of the European Central Bank‘s policy meeting later in the week, though Japan’s market was having a go at setting a new peak for the ...
