Category: Trading

November 11, 2019

Shares around the world fell Monday as hopes for a breakthrough in the trade war between the United States and China diminished after President Donald Trump said Washington had not agreed to gradually roll back tariffs as negotiations progress. Hopes […]

November 8, 2019

European stocks fell on Friday as investors cooled on prospects for global trade developments, with losses for Swiss luxury goods group Compagnie Financière Richemont SA CFR, -4.55% and French bank Crédit Agricole SA, along with major oil companies. The Stoxx […]

November 6, 2019

U.S. stocks wobbled between small gains and losses in early trading Wednesday and major indexes hovered around record highs as investors digested the latest batch of corporate earnings. Investors have been focusing on mostly solid corporate earnings and encouraging economic […]

November 1, 2019

October – historically a spooky month for stocks – wasn’t too scary this year. An ominous cloud typically hangs over the market in October due to the stockmarket crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987 and the 2008 financial crisis, […]

October 25, 2019

European stocks edged lower on Friday, in the first opportunity for Continental stocks to react to Vice President Mike Pence’s critical comments toward China, as earnings season continued to generally favorable investor reaction. After closing Thursday at its highest level […]

October 21, 2019

Stocks moved broadly higher on Wall Street Monday as investors watch the latest corporate earnings and developments in the U.S.-China trade war. China’s top negotiator said over the weekend that “substantial progress” was being made in its talks with the […]

October 18, 2019

China released a raft of economic data Friday morning, but the headline figure was 6%. That’s the rate of GDP growth in the third quarter as compared to the same period last year, and it’s lower than the 6.1% growth […]

October 17, 2019

European stocks turned higher Thursday as key political leaders say they’ve reached a deal for U.K. to exit the European Union. The pact, announced by U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, will still need ratification […]

October 14, 2019

BEIJING (AP) — China’s trade with the United States fell by double digits again in September amid a tariff war that threatens to tip the global economy into recession. Exports to the United States, China’s biggest foreign market, fell 17.8% […]

October 11, 2019

Global stocks rose sharply Friday on optimism about U.S.-Chinese talks on ending a tariff war, while oil prices gained as much as 2% after a rocket attack on an Iranian tanker. Benchmarks in Frankfurt, Paris, London, Shanghai and Tokyo all […]