Dollar slips on Powell views; optimism on trade talks aids Aussie dollar

The dollar index, a gauge of its value versus six major peers, stood at 95.96 at 0406 GMT Monday, down 0.2 percent from an intraday high of 96.16

Japan rebounds, Asia jumps on US data as trade talks begin

Japan’s benchmark, bouncing back from steep losses last week, started the day trading over 3 percent higher

Oil prices rise more than 1% on trade talks, supply cuts

Financial markets were being lifted early on Monday on expectations that face-to-face trade negotiations between delegates from Washington and Beijing, due to start on Monday, would lead to an easing in tensions between the two biggest economies in the world

Weakness in China economy gives Beijing incentive for trade deal, says Trump

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Sunday that trade talks with China were going very well and that weakness in the...

Iran’s central bank proposes slashing four zeros from falling currency: IRNA

DUBAI: Iran’s central bank has proposed slashing four zeros from the rial, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday, after the currency...

Market Weekly: Mixed sentiments, KSE-100 index gains 380 points WoW

Volumes during the week settled at 118 million shares (up by 7 per cent WoW) while value traded arrived at $41 million (up by 14 per cent WoW)

Fund managers hoping for stock rally look to emerging markets

After emerging market stocks led global equity markets lower in a brutal 2018, some U.S.-based fund managers are betting that the asset class may have the largest rebound in the new year

US employers went on a surprising hiring spree in December

The job gains reported Friday by the Labor Department came despite a trade war with China, a global slowdown and a partial government shutdown now entering its third week

China house price gains no longer a certainty: central bank adviser

Following a furious boom, China has gradually tightened regulatory controls over its massive property market from mid-2016.

Iran says despite U.S. sanctions, it has found new ‘potential’ oil buyers

Washington seeks to bring Iranian oil exports to zero in order to curb Tehran’s missile and nuclear programs and counter its growing military and political influence in the Middle East

China-US trade talks a tonic to battered markets

LONDON: World stock markets rallied on Friday after Beijing announced a new round of trade talks with Washington, though recession fears still had...

Stock market closes flat amid volatility

KARACHI: The investors of Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) observed a volatile session on Friday where indices, after oscillating in both directions, ended the...

Google shifted $23bn to tax haven Bermuda in 2017

AMSTERDAM: Google moved 19.9 billion euros ($22.7 billion) through a Dutch shell company to Bermuda in 2017, as part of an arrangement...

Wall Street rattled by Apple’s sales warning, weak factory data

US stocks slumped on Thursday, after Apple Inc’s rare sales warning exacerbated fears that the Sino-US trade war and a slowing China...

Oil prices decline on swelling oversupply, volatile markets

LONDON: Oil prices fell slightly on Thursday amid volatile currency and stock markets, coupled with concerns that an economic slowdown in 2019 will...