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- Bitcoin pulls back from brink of $50,000
Bitcoin fell as much as 5.6% to $45,914 in Asian trading hours after having posting a record peak of $49,714.66 on Sunday.
- Asian shares near all-time peak, oil heads to $60/barrel on economic revival hopes
Japan's Nikkei climbed 0.3% while Australian shares advanced 0.5% led by technology and mining shares.
- Equity futures slide on nerves over retail-trading frenzy
S&P 500 futures fell 1.2% and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 1.4%. FTSE futures, DAX futures and EuroSTOXX 50 futures all fell by just over 1%. Th...
- Asian equities rebound but short-squeeze nerves persist
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.9, but is headed for a weekly loss of more than 3%, the sharpest such fal...
- Dollar rally runs out of puff as yields ease
Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields fell nearly 7 basis points from a 10-month high hit on Tuesday and the turnaround snuffed out a three-...
- Pound teeters, dollar dithers as traders look to Brussels
"There is a risk is that the press conference bias pushes the euro higher, particularly if the forward guidance beyond the December easing ...
- Sterling holds out hope for Brexit breakthrough in Brussels
The British currency was whipsawed as the prospects of Britain and the European Union striking a last-minute deal ebbed and flowed. It shed...
- Asian shares open higher following stellar month of gains
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan added 0.26 per cent on Tuesday after closing the month 9 per cent higher, the be...
- Australia, NZ shares gain as Biden transition, vaccine cheer lift risk assets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average breached the 30,000 level overnight for the first time on optimism surrounding vaccine progress and Biden'...
- Dollar holds gains as investors adjust vaccine expectations
The dollar's decline had been predicated on crumbling U.S. bond yields, as the Federal Reserve promises low rates for a long time, and hope...
- Bitcoin surge widens cryptocurrency’s lead over gold as top asset of 2020
Crypto believers say an escalating pandemic and sliding greenback amid ever looser monetary policy will spur more gains as investors seek s...
- Shares, currencies tentative as attention shifts to US election, stimulus
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was a shade weaker, though it was not too far from a June 2018 peak at 568.84. A...
- Dollar buoyed by yields surge jump after Fed's inflation shift
The greenback rose to 106.695 against the safe-haven yen, edging near this month's high of 107.05.
- Dollar in the doldrums; US politics, Fed minutes eyed
The risk-sensitive Australian dollar inched up to a three-session high of $0.7194, but also remained contained in the channel it has traded...
- Asia stocks rise as upbeat factory data lifts confidence
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.9%, while shares in China nudged up 0.1%. Australian stocks gained 2% for...
- Dollar struggles amid Sino-US tensions, coronavirus woes
In morning trade it fell to a four-month low against the yen and a new 22-month trough on the euro at $1.1699.
- Yen up and dollar clinging on as China's Houston response awaited
The yen rose 0.3% to 106.51, its strongest since late June. The Australian and New Zealand dollars were also off from multi-month highs and...
- Fed debt buying drives demand for risk at the dollar's expense
The Fed said it will start purchasing a diversified range of investment grade US corporate bonds.
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