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Asia Stocks Fall With Oil, Copper as Yuan Weakens; Aussie Jumps
June 1st, 2016
Crude oil sinks below $49 before OPEC meets Thursday Korean bonds rally as export slump weighs on the won Asian stocks retreated with commodities and the yuan weakened as Chinese manufacturing data pointed to lackluster growth in the world’s ...
Pizza Hut partners MasterCard to trial robot cashiers
May 25th, 2016
Spotty teenagers could soon be losing their jobs to robots thanks to a tie up between MasterCard, Pizza Hut and Softbank that will see humanoids take orders and mobile-based payments at some Asian fast food joints. Softbank’s 48 inch ...
Bitcoin operators await regulation in Japan
May 11th, 2016
Bitcoin operators await regulation in Japan amid push for legitimacy and widespread use Bitcoin operators are keenly watching the Diet as it deliberates bills to regulate the currency, believing the legislation is key to regaining the public trust’s in ...
Asia markets lower, ASX down 0.7%, Shanghai down 1.7%
March 8th, 2016
Markets in Asia lost ground Tuesday, stepping back from their recent rally as traders digested the weak China trade data. Angus Nicholson, a market analyst at IG, told CNBC a lot of the recent rally in stocks has been ...
Nikkei extends losses with banks, commodities stocks under pressure
February 10th, 2016
Monkeys threw a wrench into Asian markets in the Lunar New Year’s first week of trading, with sharp sell-offs in Japan, Singapore, and Down Under on Wednesday. In Australia, the S&P/ASX 200 lost 56.37 points, or 1.17 percent, to close at ...
Asian stocks mixed after China data deluge
November 11th, 2015
Asian stocks turned mixed on Wednesday following fresh economic data from China that largely met expectations. China’s fixed-asset investment (FAI) increased 10.2 percent in the January-October period compared with the year-earlier period, in line with expectations, slightly coming down from the ...
Asian Shares Mostly Lower as Investors Await U.S. Jobs Data
October 2nd, 2015
A stronger reading could increase the chances of a rise in U.S. interest rates by year-end Asian stock markets drifted mostly lower Friday, as investors looked to a coming jobs report in the U.S. for clues about when the Federal Reserve ...
Asian shares mixed, with Nikkei at 2-week lows
September 24th, 2015
Asian shares traded mixed on Thursday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 index lagging behind its regional peers after returning from a three-day national holiday earlier in the week. The triple whammy of an uninspiring lead from Wall Street overnight, a modestly stronger yen and ...
China Stocks Pull Asian Markets Lower
September 14th, 2015
Investors are concerned about both a slowdown in China and this week’s U.S. Federal Reserve meeting China shares finished lower in tumultuous trading Monday, as weak data on Chinese factory output pulled prices down despite apparent efforts by Beijing ...
Looming FOMC meeting keeps Asian stocks on edge
September 11th, 2015
Asian stocks see-sawed on the final trading day of the week, as investors eyed increased uncertainty heading into the Federal Reserve‘s crucial meeting on interest rates next week. The Fed is widely expected to raise its near-zero interest rate as ...
