International Markets

TOKYO: Tokyo stocks have opened 0.35 per cent lower, pressured by a firmer yen following disappointing US sales data. The...

NEW YORK: U.K. stocks rose as commodity shares rebounded from their worst drop in two weeks. The FTSE 100 Index...

LONDON: U.S. stocks ended mostly higher buoyed by a rebound in oil prices and a handful of positive first-quarter earnings...

ROME: European stocks dropped Tuesday, overtaken by worries about Greece’s persistent debt troubles, but shares of Alcatel-Lucent SA were able...

HONG KONG: Asian stocks were mixed in muted Tuesday morning trade amid a lack of fresh news to buoy market...

TOKYO: The euro brushed a fresh two-year low against a broadly firmer yen on Tuesday, as the Japanese currency doggedly...

TOKYO: The yen climbed for a third day against the dollar as an adviser to Japan’s prime minister added his...

TOKYO: Tokyo shares ended the morning session Tuesday mixed on profit-taking, but optimism about potential climbing held the downtrend. The...

BEIJING: China stocks advanced to fresh seven-year highs on Tuesday, even as 15 companies start taking subscriptions for their initial...

BEIJING: China stocks were mixed after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Electricity, Utilities and Travel & Leisure...

TOKYO: Japan's Nikkei share average was flat on Tuesday as investors preferred to pull back a little after the recent...

SYDNEY: The Australian sharemarket has fallen further away from the elusive 6,000-point threshold, closing weaker for a second day as...

SEOUL: South Korea's benchmark share index ended above the 2,100 level for the first time in nearly 4 years on...

ROME: Europe's main stocks market has slid at the start of trading, despite news that Finland's Nokia was in advanced...

LONDON: U.K. stocks were little changed, erasing an earlier advance, as gains in miners offset declines in shares of homebuilders....

LONDON: The U.S. dollar fell to the upper 119 yen zone Tuesday morning in Tokyo, weighed down by remarks by...

SEOUL: South Korea's benchmark share index edged above the 2,100 level for the first time in nearly 4 years on...

PERTH: The Australian stock has abandoned its pursuit of the increasingly elusive 6,000 point threshold, at least temporarily, as mining...

TOKYO: Japanese stocks fluctuated amid low trading volumes as paper makers and agriculture companies advanced, while brokerages declined. Nippon Paper...

SYDNEY: The Australian stocks  has abandoned its pursuit of the increasingly elusive 6000 point threshold, at least temporarily, as it...