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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian…
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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul's Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday's circuit-breaker plunge…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 7 min read
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 6 min read
Five of Europe's nine indices rose on Thursday as health care led the sectors for a second day and Zurich's SMI ran…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of the nine Middle East markets fell on Thursday as the Houthis threatened more attacks on Saudi Arabia, while Cairo's EGX…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday's hot US inflation print reached the region's chipmakers: Seoul's Kospi dived 7.57…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
A hotter-than-expected September inflation reading sank the Nasdaq 1.88 percent and the S&P 500 1.11 percent on Wednesday, while the Dow closed…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
First published at 16:46 GMT; updated with the session's settlements at 20:04 GMT. The midday rout in the metals ran to the…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Eight of Europe's nine indices rose on Wednesday, led by Zurich's SMI at 1.45 percent in a fourth straight gain, and Milan's…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Riyadh's Tadawul All Share fell 1.74 percent on Wednesday with 252 of 273 stocks lower, a day after a strike that sources…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan's Taiex rose…
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Coffee jumped 4.85 percent at midday on Friday to 309.10 cents a pound, leading the whole board on signs of tighter Colombian supplies, while all five metals rose, platinum and silver up near 1.6 percent and gold 0.72 percent higher at 4,200.10 dollars an ounce as the dollar headed for a weekly fall. The crude…
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul’s Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday’s circuit-breaker plunge and Tokyo’s Nikkei up 1.39 percent after six straight declines, while Shenzhen’s component index slipped 0.12 percent for a fifth session, the only decline on the board. India’s Nifty 50 added 0.65 percent…
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 556.21 points, or 1.08 percent, to 52,177.69 on Thursday as investors rotated out of the AI trade and into the rest of the board, on CNBC’s account of the session, with the Russell 2000 leading at 1.38 percent; the Nasdaq 100 fell 0.05 percent for a fourth straight decline…
First published at 11:59 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:38 GMT. The midday rebound in the metals ran to the settlements and the crude benchmarks parted ways into the close: December gold settled 62.20 dollars, or 1.51 percent, higher at 4,170.10 an ounce as the dollar and Treasury yields slipped, while WTI settled…
Five of Europe’s nine indices rose on Thursday as health care led the sectors for a second day and Zurich’s SMI ran to a fifth straight gain at 1.55 percent, while the euro area’s large caps slipped, the Euro STOXX 50 down 0.39 percent and Milan’s 0.72 percent fall the day’s deepest. US producer prices…
Eight of the nine Middle East markets fell on Thursday as the Houthis threatened more attacks on Saudi Arabia, while Cairo’s EGX 30 rose 1.52 percent as the only gain, closing at its session high. Dubai’s four-session winning run ended with a 1.05 percent fall, and Qatar’s QE Index lost 1.35 percent to a level…
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday’s hot US inflation print reached the region’s chipmakers: Seoul’s Kospi dived 7.57 percent through a circuit breaker to a six-month low in a seventh straight decline, Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 lost 4.90 percent in a sixth, and India’s Nifty 50 rose 1.66 percent as the day’s…
A hotter-than-expected September inflation reading sank the Nasdaq 1.88 percent and the S&P 500 1.11 percent on Wednesday, while the Dow closed 0.09 percent lower, nearly flat, as money rotated into health care and consumer staples; the VIX jumped 10.48 percent and the chip index fell for a sixth straight session. All five indices fell…
First published at 16:46 GMT; updated with the session’s settlements at 20:04 GMT. The midday rout in the metals ran to the settlements: December gold settled 69.40 dollars, or 1.66 percent, lower at 4,107.90 an ounce after September’s hot US inflation reading, with silver 6.32 percent down on the evening board, while WTI settled 95…
Eight of Europe’s nine indices rose on Wednesday, led by Zurich’s SMI at 1.45 percent in a fourth straight gain, and Milan’s FTSE MIB fell 0.61 percent as the only decline, ending a three-session winning run. A hotter-than-expected US inflation report in mid-afternoon lifted the dollar and left Wall Street lower as Europe closed. Brent…