A tougher stance by the Trump administration on the suspected death of a prominent Saudi journalist lifted oil futures Friday, analysts said, though the U.S. benchmark still posted a heavy weekly decline after a further rise in domestic supplies. West Texas Intermediate crude for November delivery CLX8, +0.64% on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose 47 cents, or 0.7%, to close at $69.12 a barrel, leaving it with a 3.1% weekly decline. Trump on Thursday said it appeared likely the...
Stocks saw a mixed finish to a choppy session Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average taking back a modest portion of the previous session's more-than-300-point decline. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite lagged behind, falling 0.5% to finish around 7,449, according to preliminary figures, and leaving it with a 0.6% weekly loss. The S&P 500 ended less than 0.1% lower near 2,768, leaving it virtually unchanged on the week. The Dow rose around 65 points, or 0.3%, to close near...
Shanghai stocks rebounded from early losses to surge more than two percent Friday after top economic officials made rare coordinated statements aimed at shoring up investor confidence in the country's troubled markets. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.58 percent, or 64.05 points, to 2,550.47 but it still finished the week 2.1 percent lower. The Shenzhen Composite Index, which tracks stocks on China's second exchange, also gained 2.58 percent, or 31.80 points, to 1,263.81 but...
Foreign exchange markets reflected an improvement in risk sentiment after sluggish data on Chinese economic growth was offset by words of support Chinese authorities on Friday. Also, a European Union official attempted to ease tensions with Italy over the government™s fiscal plans, helping soothe fears of a budget showdown between Rome and Brussels and boosting the euro. European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Italy was strongly committed to the EU and the euro, and...
Faster factory inflation and higher industrial profits in the past year have created space for an increase in overall interest rates, People™s Bank of China researcher Ji Min said, according to a report by China Daily.
Inflation and foreign exchange rates also have to be factored in before adjusting interest rates, the newspaper cited Ji, deputy head of the central bank™s research bureau, as saying.
China™s central bank will make modest increases in money-market rates in 2018 as it aims to keep up the pressure on deleveraging and prevent too much divergence with U.S. policy, according to a Bloomberg survey published earlier this month.
Economists don™t forecast any change to the benchmark rate, which sets borrowing costs economy-wide, through early 2020, according to a separate survey by Bloomberg. The central bank has kept the one-year lending rate unchanged since October 2015.
Source : Bloomberg
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Foreign exchange markets reflected an improvement in risk sentiment after sluggish data on Chinese economic growth was offset by words of support Chinese authorities on Friday. Also, a European Union official attempted to ease tensions with Italy over the government™s fiscal plans, helping soothe fears of a budget showdown between Rome and Brussels and boosting the euro. European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Italy was strongly committed to the EU and the euro, and...