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Asia Wrap: Nikkei Rises Alone as Japan's 10 Year Hits a 30 Year High
Tokyo came back from its three day holiday with the Nikkei 225 the board's only riser. The index closed 0.76 percent higher…
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US Wrap: Yields Surge and Every Index Falls as Brent Settles Above 103
Every index we track fell on Wednesday and the board's one green sector is the one that pumps what everyone else pays…
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Commodities Wrap: Brent Surges Past 103 as Tehran Digs In
The barrel snapped five days of losses in one afternoon and the rest of the board paid for it. Brent rose 3.9…
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Europe Wrap: Every Index Closes Lower as Brent Tops 102 Dollars
Europe closed lower across all nine boards on Wednesday and left one patch of green on the sector table. London's FTSE 100…
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Fitch Raises Its 2026 Global Growth Forecast to 2.6 Percent
Fitch Ratings raised its forecast for global growth this year by 0.2 points to 2.6 percent and said it expects the Federal…
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American Business Activity Hits a 62 Month High While Britain Slows
Business activity in the United States grew in September at the fastest pace in more than five years and the euro area…
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Euro Sinks to Its Lowest ECB Reference Rate Since July
The European Central Bank's euro reference rate fell to 1.1411 dollars on 23 September, its lowest since 29 July, when it stood…
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Britain Borrowed 18.3 Billion Pounds in August, Above Forecast
Public sector net borrowing in the United Kingdom was 18.3 billion pounds in August, 2.9 billion more than a year earlier and…
Read more →Asia Wrap: Taipei Sets a Second Record Close, Seoul Leads Into Chuseok
Asia closed split on Wednesday around a thinning holiday map. South Korea's Kospi led the board, 0.90 percent higher at 7,080.92, a…
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Bank of Korea Consumer Sentiment Rises to 106.6 in September
South Korea's composite consumer sentiment index stood at 106.6 in September, 2.1 points higher than in August, the Bank of Korea reported…
Read more →US Wrap: The Nasdaq Takes a Second Straight Record as Oil Slides
The Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.45 percent to a second straight record close, at 27,244.28, on Tuesday, per the network's closing report, while…
Read more →Europe Wrap: Amsterdam Leads a Split Board as Brent Rebounds
Europe took Monday's relief surge and split it down the middle on Tuesday. Amsterdam's AEX led the board at 0.78 percent higher,…
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Alibaba's New AI Chip Triples Performance as Shares Jump 5.1 Percent
Alibaba Group unveiled a new AI chip that it said triples the performance of its predecessor and outlined plans for an AI…
Read more →Asia Wrap: A Taipei Record and a Fade as Brent Slips Under 100 Dollars
Asia took Wall Street's record close and handed most of it back by the bell on Tuesday. South Korea's Kospi opened 2.20…
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China's Gold Imports Already Top 1,000 Tons, Beating All of 2025
China's gold imports through August 2026 topped 1,000 tons, already surpassing the country's full year import total for 2025, according to customs…
Read more →Eurosystem Launches Pontes for Tokenised Asset Settlement
The Eurosystem launched Pontes on Monday, a solution that lets wholesale transactions in tokenised assets settle in central bank money, the European…
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Paramount Skydance Settles With 12 States Over Warner Bros.
Paramount Skydance has reached a settlement with a coalition of 12 state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, resolving their antitrust…
Read more →US Wrap: The Nasdaq Closes at a Record on an AI Surge as Yields Slide
Wall Street turned last week's caution into a record on Monday: the Nasdaq Composite jumped 2.26 percent to close at 27,122.09, its…
Read more →Europe Wrap: Every Index Rises as Brent Breaks Below 100
Every index on our Europe board rose on Monday, the mirror of Friday's board on which every index fell: the FTSE MIB…
Read more →Asia Wrap: The Kospi Reclaims 7,000 With Japan Shut and Oil Under 101
Asia opened the week higher without Japan. South Korea's Kospi rose 1.65 percent to close at 7,007.72, back above the 7,000 line…
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Anthropic's Annualised Revenue Is Expected to Pass 100 Billion Dollars
Anthropic is expected to reach an annualised revenue run rate above 100 billion dollars this year as it prepares for a stock…
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The Week Ahead: Flash PMIs and Three Central Bank Decisions
The week after three central banks decided is the week the data answers back. Wednesday's flash purchasing managers' surveys for the euro…
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Bank of America: Position for a Policy Rate Above 5 Percent
Rates strategists at Bank of America have told clients that the interest rate market is underestimating where the American tightening cycle ends,…
Read more →US Wrap: A Split Close to Fed Week as Buffett Gives Up the Chair
Wall Street closed its Fed week split down the middle. The Nasdaq 100 rose 0.67 percent to 29,644.17 and the S&P 500…
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- Asia Market Wrap 8 October: All Ten Indices Fall as Singapore Drops 3.49 Percent
- Asia Market Wrap 6 October: Nikkei Posts First Close Above 70,000 Since July as Kospi Falls
- Europe Market Wrap 9 October: All Nine Indices Rise as Basic Resources Jump 2.99 Percent