Tagged: Tokyo

Oil prices tumble after 3-day rally

By AAP Ken Hasegawa, an energy trading manager at Newedge Group in Tokyo, said the crude market was extremely volatile after the three-day rally that began on Friday led prices to surge nearly 20...

Tokyo stocks end 1.27% lower

By AFP and AP Energy giant Inpex jumped 6. 88 per cent to Y1,381. 5, while Sony fell 0. 03 per cent to Y2,697. 5 after Credit Suisse raised its price target on the...

Europe shares steady despite energy slide

By AFP The Athens stock market had plunged over 9 per cent on Wednesday after Greece‘s new hard-left Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras scrapped key privatisation projects and pressed home his demand for a renegotiated...

Tokyo stocks end 1.06% lower

By AFP Global Indices IndexLastChg% Chg DOW JONES17191. 37-195. 8-1. 1% S&P 5002002. 16-27. 4-1. 3% NASDAQ4637. 99-43. 5-0. 9% FTSE 1006825. 94+14. 30. Tokyo stocks closed 1. 06 per cent lower, with videogame...

European stocks shrug off Greek worries

By AFP The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0. 2 per cent to 17,423. 49 points, while the broad-based S&P 500 edged up 0. 1 per cent to 2,030. 21 and the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite...

Tokyo stocks end slightly stronger

By AFP Alan has been a trusted source of investment advice to Australians for many years, and in 2005 he founded Eureka Report - Australia’s #1 online investment report. Along with Robert Gottliebsen and...

European stocks, currency bounce higher

By AFP “The Greek election results were no surprise and were largely priced into markets and alongside improving German business confidence data enabled the German benchmark DAX stock index to start the first full...

European stocks lift on German data

By AFP Asian markets mostly rose Tuesday after China released data showing its economy grew a little faster than expected. Shanghai gained 1. 8 per cent a day after slumping 7. 7 per cent in...

Shanghai stocks plunge, end 7.7% lower

By AFP The euro continued to struggle against the dollar and yen on Monday before this week’s European Central Bank (ECB) meeting that is expected to unveil a vast bond-buying scheme to kickstart the...

Shanghai stocks plummet, end 7.7% lower

By Dow Jones newswires with AFP The euro continued to struggle against the dollar and yen on Monday before this week’s European Central Bank (ECB) meeting that is expected to unveil a vast bond-buying...