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Asia trades lower as market sentiment falls, ASX slips 2%, Shanghai down 1%
February 24th, 2016
Asia stocks traded mostly down Wednesday morning, with a combination of low oil prices, concerns over China and weak overnight data weighing on market sentiment. In Japan, the benchmark Nikkei 225 retraced losses over 1.7 percent early on to trade down ...
Shanghai drops 5%, Shenzhen down 6.5% in renewed sell-off
January 11th, 2016
Chinese markets extended an already rough start to the year Monday, losing further ground and other Asian markets came along for the ride lower. The Shanghai composite was down as much 5.22 percent in late-afternoon trade, while the Shenzhen Composite shed 6.5 percent. ...
Thomson Reuters introduce FX Monitor in Eikon Messenger
December 21st, 2015
Move gives corporate treasurers greater control by simplifying access to financial services community alongside exclusive news and analysis from Thomson Reuters Keeping in touch with the rapidly changing and time-sensitive foreign exchange markets can pose significant challenges for corporate ...
Nikkei, Shanghai outperform lackluster Asia
November 9th, 2015
Asian stocks diverged on Monday, with markets in China and Japan leaping to their highest levels since August 21 while other regional bourses wobbled after below-view trade figures released at the weekend from China. October exports fell 6.9 percent from 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, ...
Shanghai, Tokyo stocks buck downtrend in choppy trade
October 29th, 2015
Asian stocks outside China and Japan slipped on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged but signaled that a December rate hike was still on the table. “The market, economists, commentators and the man on the street has combed ...
Asia Stocks Little Changed Before European Central Bank Decision
January 22nd, 2015
Asia’s benchmark stock gauge was little changed as investors awaited a European Central Bank decision today on quantitative-easing strategy. Chinese shares rallied as the People’s Bank of China pumped funds into the financial system. Bridgestone Corp. sank 1.7 percent as tiremakers ...
Virgin Australia’s NZ operations report $31m profit following accounting changes
December 8th, 2014
Virgin Australia’s earnings performance on the highly competitive trans-Tasman route has improved from loss-making to a profit as a result of accounting policy changes and other benefits from its alliance with Air New Zealand . The Australian airline’s New ...
Shanghai Composite Index Breaks 3,000 for First Time Since 2011
December 8th, 2014
China’s Shanghai Composite Index surpassed 3,000 for the first time since 2011 and a gauge of the nation’s biggest companies headed for a record winning streak on optimism shares will extend their world-beating rally. Citic Securities Co. and Haitong Securities Co., ...
Fed’s Rosengren says fight for higher inflation should be vigorous
November 11th, 2014
The Fed should fight low inflation as vigorously as it would a too rapid run-up in prices or risk the same sort of prolonged slow growth plaguing Japan and Europe, Boston Federal Reserve bank president Eric Rosengren said on Monday. Rosengren, ...
