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Oil prices jump 7% to top $102/ bbl ahead of US blockade on IranOil prices jumped back above $100 a barrel on Monday as the U.S. Navy prepared to block ships to and from Iran via the Strait of Hormuz in ...- Japan bonds tread water ahead of expected BOJ rate hike this weekThe BOJ's closely watched quarterly "tankan" survey, released on Monday, showed sentiment hitting a four-year high among big manufacturers,...
- Japan's Nikkei slips as yen gains; higher bond yields lift banksThe broader Topix, with its lower proportion of tech companies and other exporters, advanced 0.64%. A sub-index of value shares rallied 0.9...
- Japan's Nikkei skids 1% as yen intervention risks riseAmid market fluctuations, concerns over currency intervention lingered as the yen's value approached key thresholds. Traders closely monito...
- Japan's Nikkei sinks to 4-week low before BOJ as Fed angst weighsThe Bank of Japan is due to announce its latest policy decision around midday in Tokyo, adding to nerves after Governor Kazuo Ueda hinted i...
- Euro steadies as markets raise bets of ECB hike after inflation dataInflation in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), rose by 5.9 % year-on-year from 5.8% in July, supporting expectat...
- Dollar struggles before payrolls test; Aussie reboundsThe U.S. dollar index, which gauges the currency against a basket of six counterparts, edged 0.07% lower to 102.38 in early Asia. On Thursd...
- US Treasury yields edge lower after Fitch downgradeFitch overnight downgraded the U.S. government's rating to AA+ from AAA, citing an expected fiscal deterioration over the next three years ...
- Japan's Nikkei hits 4-week peak amid calm bond market, earnings boostThe benchmark Japanese government bond yield rose to a nine-year high of 0.605% to start Monday trading, and then eased to 0.59%, after inv...
- Japan's Nikkei boosted by regional share rally, but BOJ limits gainsWith the earning rush picking up on Friday, investors also had more reason to be cautious since Thursday's notable stock market laggards, i...
- Japan's Nikkei rises as weaker yen spurs car maker rally; banks slideThe Nikkei ended the day up 1.23% at 32,700.94. Of the index's 225 components, 198 rose, while 25 fell and two were flat. The broader Topix...
- Japan's Nikkei slumps for fourth straight session on Fed tightening concernsThe Nikkei has fallen 2.41% this week, after closing at a 33-year high on Monday. Since mid-March, it has rallied nearly 27%. After the ral...
- Dollar holds steady after larger-than-expected rise in May payrollsThe US dollar was relatively unchanged in choppy trading after the release of May's non-farm payrolls report on Friday. Despite employment ...
- Japan's Nikkei scales 3-month peak on Wall Street's lead; tech paces gainsChipmaking equipment giant Tokyo Electron was the Nikkei's biggest support, providing 50 of the index's 310-point surge with its 3.1% advan...
- Yen weakens further past 150 per dollar, pound falls on UK turmoilSterling was also on the back foot, falling 0.8% to a weekly low of $1.11535 as Britain's ruling Conservative party began scrambling to pic...
- Dollar firm vs Aussie, euro on heightened recession worriesThe global safety bid was driven by a raft of weak world economic indicators. On Monday, data showed U.S. single-family homebuilders' confi...
- Bitcoin jumps after apparent Janet Yellen statement quells US clampdown fearsIn a statement that briefly appeared on the Treasury website before it was taken down, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a still-pending...
- Bitcoin tumbles 10% in wake of deepening China crackdownThe world's biggest cryptocurrency, long plagued by volatility, has lost over 20% in the last six days alone
- Bitcoin trades near Sunday record of $34,800 following 800% surgeThe latest milestone for the world's most popular cryptocurrency came less than three weeks after it crossed $20,000 for the first time, on...
- Volatility erupts in $5-trillion currency marketThe impact is greatest in currencies with most at stake from an end to years where stimulus only got more generous -the so-called high yiel...
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