Gold declined for a second day as investors favored riskier assets and weighed President Donald Trump™s comments on trade talks with China. Stocks in Asia gained along with U.S. futures Monday, while Treasury yieldscontinued to recover from multi-year lows reached last week, when an inversion in the yield curve sparked recession worries. Trump said the U.S. is œdoing very well with China, and talking! but suggested he wasn™t ready to sign a trade deal, hours...
Crude held gains after a drone attack on oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia underscored geopolitical risk in the Middle East and as investors assess signs of progress in trade negotiations with China. Futures on Monday were little changed after climbing 0.7% on Friday. Saudi Arabian Oil Co. said oil operations weren™t interrupted after a small fire was extinguished at a natural gas liquids plant at the at the Shaybah field. President Donald Trump said in a...
Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday, tracking rallies on Wall Street with all eyes on key events this week including a major speech by the US Federal Reserve chief. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 0.90 percent, or 182.81 points, at 20,601.62 in early trade, while the broader Topix index climbed 0.68 percent, or 10.17 points, to 1,495.46. Source : AFP
Hong Kong shares ended Monday's morning session with strong gains following a healthy lead from Wall Street and fuelled by fresh hopes for China-US trade talks. The Hang Seng Index jumped 1.87 percent, or 482.01 points, to 26,216.23. Source : AFP
European stocks opened higher on Monday as hopes emerge for stimulus from central banks and fiscal measures from major economies such as China and Germany. The pan-European Stoxx 600 jumped 0.8% at 372.97 at the opening bell, with basic resources surging 1.8% as all sectors and major bourses traded in positive territory. German finance minister Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Germany has the fiscal strength to mitigate any future economic crisis with œfull force and suggested that...
U.S. President Donald Trump and his national security adviser are publicly at odds about the seriousness of the threat currently posed by North Korea.
In a Sunday morning tweet from Tokyo, Trump issued a retort to John Bolton who the previous day here had told reporters that there was œno doubt North Korea™s recent test firing of short-range ballistic missiles violated a United Nations resolution.
Bolton™s remark was the first by a U.S. official describing the North Korean launches as a violation of U.N. resolutions.
œNorth Korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others, but not me, said Trump in his tweet.
The U.S. president also expressed confidence the North Korean leader œwill keep his promise to me in moving toward denuclearization.
Source : VOA
President Donald Trump's top economic adviser is playing down fears of a looming recession after last week's sharp drop in the financial markets and predicting the economy will perform well in the sec...
An Iranian tanker left Gibraltar on Sunday (8/18), after agreeing there refused to attempt to detain him, but it was not clear where the ship was headed. Data on surveillance of tanker sea traffic mo...
North Korea has launched a fresh round of short-range weapons into the sea off its east coast, South Korea™s military reported - Pyongyang™s latest apparent outburst of anger at continued U.S.-Sou...
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States and Britain were moving rapidly towards a deal on trade that would be "fantastic and big." "I think we'll make a fantastic and big trade deal...
Washington's top two intelligence officials spent their last day on the job Thursday, leaving the nation's spy agencies in the hands of an acting director as U.S. President Donald Trump moves ahead wi...
Gold declined for a second day as investors favored riskier assets and weighed President Donald Trump™s comments on trade talks with China. Stocks in Asia gained along with U.S. futures Monday, while Treasury yieldscontinued to recover from multi-year lows reached last week, when an inversion in the yield curve sparked recession worries. Trump said the U.S. is œdoing very well with China, and talking! but suggested he wasn™t ready to sign a trade deal, hours...
Crude held gains after a drone attack on oil and gas facilities in Saudi Arabia underscored geopolitical risk in the Middle East and as investors assess signs of progress in trade negotiations with China. Futures on Monday were little changed after climbing 0.7% on Friday. Saudi Arabian Oil Co. said oil operations weren™t interrupted after a small fire was extinguished at a natural gas liquids plant at the at the Shaybah field. President Donald Trump said in a...
Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday, tracking rallies on Wall Street with all eyes on key events this week including a major speech by the US Federal Reserve chief. The benchmark Nikkei 225 index was up 0.90 percent, or 182.81 points, at 20,601.62 in early trade, while the broader Topix index climbed 0.68 percent, or 10.17 points, to 1,495.46. Source : AFP
Hong Kong shares ended Monday's morning session with strong gains following a healthy lead from Wall Street and fuelled by fresh hopes for China-US trade talks. The Hang Seng Index jumped 1.87 percent, or 482.01 points, to 26,216.23. Source : AFP
European stocks opened higher on Monday as hopes emerge for stimulus from central banks and fiscal measures from major economies such as China and Germany. The pan-European Stoxx 600 jumped 0.8% at 372.97 at the opening bell, with basic resources surging 1.8% as all sectors and major bourses traded in positive territory. German finance minister Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that Germany has the fiscal strength to mitigate any future economic crisis with œfull force and suggested that...