ASIAN MARKET – Asian stocks were higher on Friday after index publisher MSCI announcement which said it would increase the weighting of Chinese mainland shares in its benchmarks that measure stock performances globally. Meanwhile, the dollar benefited from robust economic data. The MSCI index said that it would increase four times the weightings of China’s …
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ASIAN MARKET – Asian stocks experienced a China-led rise on Monday after US President Donald Trump announced that he would delay planned hikes in tariffs on Chinese imports. Negotiations between the two economic superpowers have made “substantial progress,” Trump said. Last Sunday, Trump tweeted announced that he would delay the scheduled tariff hikes supposed to …
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The yen was stronger against its peers on Tuesday with investors trying to take refuge in safe-haven assets after the US Justice Department charged Chinese giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with fraud, ramping up the US-China trade tensions. The United States on Monday charged Huawei, its chief financial officer, and two other affiliates with bank …
The dollar was restrained versus its peers on Thursday, limited by concerns over global growth, the US government shutdown, and a yet-unresolved US-China trade war. “Trade tensions are the most dominant factor for investor sentiment right now and will drive market flows,” said Nick Twidale, who is the chief operating officer at Rakuten Securities. Twidale …
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US President Donald Trump said in a late night Tweet on Wednesday that he would delay the State of the Union Address until the government shutdown was over as a response to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s move to obstruct his plans for the speech. Earlier in the day, Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives …
The International Monetary Fund slashed its global growth forecasts on and a survey showed increasing negativity among business chiefs as trade tensions and uncertainty loomed over the world’s biggest annual gathering. The bleak IMF forecasts, published on the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, emphasized the challenges that are faced by policymakers …
China is set to report on Monday that economic growth cooled to its slowest in 28 years in 2018 amid weakening domestic demand and bruising US tariffs, adding pressure on Beijing to roll out more support measures to avert a sharper slowdown. Increasing signs of weakness in China, which has fueled nearly a third of …
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The dollar held firm near a two-week high against a basket of six other currencies on Monday, with investor risk appetite help up in spite of the most recent data showing China’s 2018 economic growth slowing to a near three-decade low. The dollar index, which tracks the dollar’s strength against a group of six other …
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The dollar floundered for traction against other currencies on Tuesday, with investors increasingly convinced that the Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates this year amid risks of a sharper slowdown in global growth. Read more here!
Oil priced inched up on Friday, shaking off previous losses after China said it would hold talks with the US government on January 7 to 8 to look for solutions to the trade disputes between the world’s two biggest economic powerhouses. Read more here!
Safe-haven currencies including the yen gained against the dollar on Wednesday, as a careful mood dominated the first trading day of the year on worries about the global growth, the US government shutdown, and a slower pace of Federal Reserve rate hikes. Read more here!
The yen and the Swiss franc gained on Friday, as investors sought refuge in safe-haven assets because of renewed US-China trade tensions and weaker-than-expected data in the top two economies that revived global growth fears. Read more here!
The dollar hovered near a 19-month high on Monday, boosted by safe-haven buying as escalated worries of a global economic slowdown diminished appetites for riskier assets. Read more here!
he dollar was steady against most major counterparts on Friday, as investors’ attention switched to an expected US interest rate hike next week. Read more here!
A Canadian provincial court deciding whether to grant bail to a top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies. Read more here!
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