Last Updated: Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 08:32
MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 0.1 percent, after Wall Street logged losses, with U.S. trading volume at its lowest in a month as markets awaited the Fed outcome.
Last Updated: Monday, September 14, 2015, 09:34
US stock futures rose 0.4 percent from late US levels in early Asian trade while Japan`s Nikkei rose 0.4 percent. MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan gained 0.3 percent.
Last Updated: Friday, September 11, 2015, 09:11
Asian shares rose on Friday thanks to gains on Wall Street, while the dollar steadied after facing pressure from a rallying yuan and U.S. data that offered no clarity on whether the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates next week.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 08:10
Asian stocks fell on Thursday after US stocks retreated overnight and as Japan machinery orders unexpectedly shrank, deflating investors` appetite for riskier assets.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 9, 2015, 08:35
MSCI`s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was up 1.2 percent in early trade, after major Wall Street indexes all logged gains of more than 2 percent.
Last Updated: Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 10:53
The weak data raised expectations of more policy easing in the coming months. A Reuters poll at end-August showed a 80 percent of respondents expected a further cut in the reserve requirement ratio and 70 percent saw a chance of interest rate cuts.
Last Updated: Monday, September 7, 2015, 09:03
The index had already dropped earlier in the session following Friday`s Wall Street slide, triggered after the August U.S. jobs report failed to give a clear view on the Federal Reserve`s interest rate hike.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 08:25
The dollar firmed 0.5 percent to 120 yen, after skidding more than 1 percent overnight and moving away from last week`s high of 121.76 yen, while the euro slipped about 0.2 percent to $1.1299.
Last Updated: Monday, August 31, 2015, 09:05
Global markets are bracing for Chinese data on Tuesday which is expected to show the world`s second-largest economy is continuing to lose momentum.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 09:05
The Shanghai Composite Index retreated 3.9 percent, a day after worries that the central bank could be in no hurry to ease policy further pushed it down 6.1 percent.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 09:17
Gold rallied to its highest since mid-July last week after Beijing`s mini-devaluation of the yuan, as analysts speculated that a weakening Chinese currency could prompt the Federal Reserve to postpone an expected rise in US interest rates.
Last Updated: Tuesday, August 18, 2015, 08:33
The dollar-denominated MSCI broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was flat near its two-year low marked on Monday.
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