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Asia Market Wrap 9 September: Brent Tops 100 Dollars as Korean Chips Rally and India Slips
Asian equity markets split on Wednesday as crude oil extended its rally, with Brent crude topping 100 dollars a barrel in Asian…
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US Manufacturing Profits Rise 66.7 Percent in a Year While Sales Rise 17.4 Percent
After tax profits at United States manufacturers reached 359.4 billion dollars in the second quarter, the Census Bureau said on Tuesday, up…
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US Market Wrap 8 September: The Dow Drops 628 Points as Health Care Sinks and Oil Nears 100
Wall Street came back from Labor Day to an oil price near 100 dollars and sold the Dow. The Dow Jones Industrial…
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Commodities Wrap 8 September: Attacks on Saudi Energy Sites Lift Brent to a Six Week High Near 100 Dollars
Crude oil climbed to a six week high on Tuesday after attacks on energy facilities in Saudi Arabia threatened Gulf supply, with…
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Bank of America’s Brent Base Case Is 83 Dollars and Its Tail Scenario Is 80 Percent Higher
Bank of America put Brent at 83 dollars a barrel for the second half of this year and 75 dollars for 2027,…
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Europe Market Wrap 8 September: Healthcare Sinks Switzerland 1.55 Percent While Europe Holds Flat
A steep drop in healthcare shares pulled Switzerland’s SMI down 1.55 percent to 14,057.61 on Tuesday, by far the largest move in…
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Middle East Market Wrap 8 September: Gulf Mostly Higher as Saudi Energy Sites Are Hit, Egypt Falls 0.80 Percent
Most of the Gulf rose on the day its largest economy's energy facilities were attacked. Abu Dhabi's FTSE ADX General closed back…
Read more →Asia Market Wrap 8 September: Tokyo Falls 1.7 Percent as Brent Nears 100 Dollars and the Yen Firms
Asia fell on Tuesday as oil moved toward 100 dollars a barrel. Japan's Nikkei 225 lost 1,130.51 points, or 1.70 percent, to…
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China’s Eight Month Surplus Narrows as Imports Rise 22 Percent, Outpacing Exports
China's goods trade grew 17.6 percent in the first eight months of the year to 34.78 trillion yuan, the customs administration said…
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Korea’s Real National Income Rises 3.1 Percent as Terms of Trade Outpace 0.6 Percent Growth
South Korea's real gross national income rose 3.1 percent in the second quarter while real gross domestic product rose 0.6 percent, the…
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Apple’s 2,000 Dollar Foldable Meets a 94 Percent Inventory Build: The Numbers Before 9 September
Apple's new chief executive John Ternus takes the stage on Wednesday 9 September with a foldable iPhone expected to cost more than…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 7 September: Brent Settles at 97.31 Dollars as the US and Iran Trade Strikes
Brent crude settled at 97.31 dollars a barrel on Monday, up 1.03 dollars or 1.1 percent, after the United States and Iran…
Read more →Europe Market Wrap 7 September: The Board Splits 6 to 6 as Bund Yields Rise 5 Basis Points Into ECB Week
Europe split down the middle on Monday. 6 of the 12 benchmarks tracked here closed higher and 6 lower, on our count,…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 7 September: Kuwait Erases Its Losses Since 1 September as Saudi Slips and Egypt’s 4 Day Run Ends
The Gulf split for a second session, and this time Kuwait led it. Boursa Kuwait's All Share Index rose 94.55 points, or…
Read more →Asia Market Wrap 7 September: The Kospi Jumps 4.6 Percent to the Edge of 7,000 as Chips Lift Seoul, Tokyo and Taipei
Asia rose on Monday with Wall Street closed for Labor Day. South Korea's Kospi rose 308.18 points, or 4.61 percent, to 6,995.39,…
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Norway’s 2.3 Trillion Dollar Fund Rethinks Its Bonds and Warns on Concentration After a Record Half Year
Norway's Government Pension Fund Global, the largest sovereign investor that publishes its value, has opened September with a set of strategy advice…
Read more →Middle East Market Wrap 6 September: Egypt Extends Its Run to a Fourth Gain as the Gulf Splits After the US Jobs Surprise
The region's first session after Friday's United States payrolls surprise produced no verdict, only a split. Of the 7 headline market benchmarks…
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Report: Kuwait’s New Debt Era: How Sovereign Borrowing Is Reshaping Fiscal Policy, Banking Liquidity and Kuwait’s Capital Market
Kuwait closed fiscal year 2025/26 with an actual deficit of 7.14 billion dinars as oil revenue fell 29.8 percent to 13.589 billion,…
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Kuwait caps brokerage commission discounts at 25 percent from January 2027
Kuwait's Capital Markets Authority issued Circular No. 16 of 2026 on 3 September, permitting licensed persons acting as qualified registered brokers on…
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The Week Ahead 6 to 12 September: the inflation prints get the last word, the ECB decides, and Saudi Arabia opens its books
By The Edge Research Team Friday settled the labour question loudly and left the one that matters. United States payrolls for August…
Read more →US Market Wrap 4 September: The Jobs Shock Costs the Dow 272 Points While Small Caps Refuse to Follow
The strongest payrolls month since March, per our US jobs report of 4 September, gave Wall Street a selloff with an asterisk.…
Read more →Commodities Wrap 4 September: The Jobs Print Turns the Metals Board Red as Diesel Sets a Record at the Pump
One economic release turned the whole metals board red, something no session this week had produced. Gold fell 1.44 percent to 4,474.70…
Read more →Europe Market Wrap 4 September: The Board Barely Moves as the US Jobs Shock Lands After Lunch
Europe's afternoon belonged to an American number, and the board ended the week refusing to be moved by it. 7 of the…
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US Payrolls Rise 162,000 in August, More Than 3 Times the Consensus, and September Hike Odds Rebuild
The United States labor market showed no sign of the slowdown forecasters expected. Nonfarm payrolls rose by 162,000 in August, the Bureau…
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- Europe Market Wrap 9 October: All Nine Indices Rise as Basic Resources Jump 2.99 Percent