Get ready for crunchtime in France. With only a few days to go before Sunday’s first-round presidential election, the polls are showing a nail-bitingly close race between four candidates
The world economy seems to be gaining momentum, according the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.
U.S. equities fell on Tuesday after Goldman Sachs shocked Wall Street by missing estimates. Investors also remained vigilant amid U.S.-North Korea tensions and the nearing of the French presidential election.
The Federal Reserve isn’t likely to roil the market when the central bank starts to reduce its $4.5 trillion balance sheet, Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Monday.
The Chinese economy picked up steam in the first quarter. Gross domestic product grew 6.9% from a year earlier, according to official data published Monday, hitting its fastest pace since the third quarter of 2015.
TOKYO (Reuters) - The dollar dipped to a five-month low against the yen early on Monday as rising tensions over North Korea kept the safe-haven Japanese currency in demand.
Against the backdrop of missiles flying, the “mother of all bombs” being dropped on Islamic State targets and the threat of an all-out nuclear war, financial markets have been
A popular measure of Wall Street fear on Tuesday touched its highest level since just after President Donald Trump’s surprise November election five months ago.
Gold posted a breakout session Tuesday as investors took risk positions off the table as geopolitical tensions rose.
U.S. crude oil rose for a sixth consecutive session on Tuesday to hit its highest level in five weeks, underpinned by tensions following a U.S. missile strike on Syria and a shutdown at Libyas largest oilfield.
Twenty years after the Asian financial crisis and a decade since the global credit crunch, the region is swimming in debt.
SEOUL North Korea said that it was “not frightened” by the U.S. strike on its allies in Syria, and vowed to beef up its nuclear force as U.S. Navy ships make their way to waters
After being stuck in a state of suspended animation for the past few weeks, the stock market will finally have its moment of truth as corporate earnings begin rolling out over
Asian emerging-market bonds lured the most cash in more than two years last quarter. Now, the trade is splitting investors -- with some betting the easy money has been made.
Stocks stabilized Thursday a day after the market lost its footing in response to minutes of a March Federal Reserve policy meeting that revealed the central bank
