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Oil prices drop 3 percent as investors retreat from overnight gains
September 1st, 2015
Oil prices fell nearly 3 percent in Asian trade on Tuesday, with investors covering short positions and taking profits after Brent and U.S. crude soared more than 8 percent in the previous session. Both Brent and U.S. crude prices ...
Asian stocks decline as China twin PMIs sap risk appetite
September 1st, 2015
Asian stocks declined on Tuesday, as losses on Wall Street overnight and new manufacturing data out of the world’s second-largest economy curbed risk appetite. China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) edged down to 49.7 in August from 50 in July, just ...
Middle Eastern Stocks Rally Led by Oman After Oil-Price Rebound
August 31st, 2015
Muscat’s MSM30 Index advanced the most since January Brent crude capped the best week since 2009 on Friday Omani stocks led a rally in most equity markets across the Middle East after oil prices had the biggest-weekly jump in ...
Shanghai Composite widens losses as US futures tank
August 31st, 2015
Mainland equities lost as much as 3.7 percent on Monday while Dow futures tanked more than 200 points on reports that Beijing may finally halt its controversial market intervention. A report by The Financial Times over the weekend said that Beijing will abandon large-scale share ...
China’s Economic Woes Jeopardize Putin’s Pipeline, Energy Trade Between Russia, China
August 28th, 2015
For the past decade, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been putting plans in place to free Russia from energy dependency on European markets with a series of projects that aim to capitalize on the economic clout of China. But ...
Major Mining Pools Make a Stand Against Bitcoin XT Fork, Support for BIP 100 Grows
August 26th, 2015
It has been little over a week since Mike Hearn and Gavin Andresen included Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 101 (BIP 101) into the alternative Bitcoin implementation Bitcoin XT. BIP 101 is designed to create a hard fork in the blockchain to ...
China stocks slip as rate cut fails to convince investors
August 26th, 2015
China‘s turbulent stock markets slipped again on Wednesday, as a double-barrelled blast of central bank stimulus failed to convince investors of Beijing’s ability to jolt the world’s second biggest economy out of its slowdown. After watching share prices tumble ...
Oil recovers but still ends near 6-1/2-year lows
August 26th, 2015
U.S. crude rises 3 pct after Monday tumble, Brent up 1 pct China cuts interest rates, helping global stock market rebound EIA seen citing a 1.0 mln-barrel build in U.S. crude last week Coming Up: EIA inventory data on Wednesday ...
Gold settles lower; other metals slide
August 25th, 2015
Palladium slides nearly 5%; copper still at 6-year low Gold futures failed to score any gains on Monday, despite its reputation as a refuge in times of market turmoil, while other metals took a hit on the latest rout ...
China stocks slump again in absence of government support; Hong Kong rebounds
August 25th, 2015
China stocks slumped about 4 percent on Tuesday, touching eight-month lows, as investors dumped shares after a grim “Black Monday” that battered global markets but failed to prompt fresh rescue measures from Beijing. After opening 6.4 percent lower, the ...
