Asian shares edged higher on Monday after data showed the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to the lowest in almost 50 years, easing concerns of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.16%. Japan’s Nikkei stock index opened higher but reversed course and fell 0.2%. …read more […]
U.S. President Donald Trump has called his new trade deal with Japan a “phenomenal” victory for U.S. farmers.
Indian private sector lender Yes Bank is in talks with Microsoft Corp and two other technology companies as it looks to bring in a strategic shareholder as part of a strategy to rake in fresh capital, the Mint newspaper reported on Sunday. The talks began three weeks ago and could see the bank selling as much as 15% through a fresh equity issue, the newspaper reported https://bit.ly/2Mi7vk6, citing two people aware of the discussions. The bank’s chief executive officer, Ravneet Gill, had said last week that the lender was in talks with private equity firms, strategic …read more […]
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Boston Federal Reserve officials have a pretty good idea what helped the ailing industrial town of Lawrence, Massachusetts, start to make a turnaround, including a state takeover of the public school system and a focused effort to lift job options for working parents.
In a wide-ranging interview, Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren discussed the Fed’s interest rate policy, divisions among members of the FOMC and his expectations for the U.S. economy. Rosengren spoke with Yahoo Finance reporter Brian Cheung in Boston during the bank’s economic research conference, “A House Divided: Geographic Disparities in Twenty-First Century America.” …read more […]
(Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. and rival Walmart Inc. reported record revenue for their six-day India sales festivals as e-commerce catches on with buyers and sellers in smaller Indian towns, moving beyond the country’s urban, English-speaking population.The American competitors have been dueling in India since Walmart cut a $16 billion deal for control of local pioneer Flipkart Online Services Pvt last year. Their latest sales — which Amazon calls the Great Indian Festival and Flipkart calls Big Billion Days — are a high-stakes battle that ran on the same days and concluded over the weekend.Both focused on expanding their online commerce …read more […]
Oil prices fell on Monday, extending last week’s heavy losses, with traders fearing the global economic slowdown will weigh on future oil demand growth while pegging hopes for a rebound on progress in talks this week on ending the U.S.-China trade war.
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Asian shares edged higher on Monday after data showed the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to the lowest in almost 50 years, easing concerns of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy.
Asian shares edged higher on Monday after data showed the U.S. unemployment rate dropped to the lowest in almost 50 years, easing concerns of a slowdown in the world’s largest economy. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.18%. Japan’s Nikkei stock index opened higher but reversed course and fell 0.3%. …read more […]
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Highlights of this day in history: U.S. and Britain strike Afghanistan; Achille Lauro hijacked; Supreme Court pick Clarence Thomas faces damaging claims; Matthew Shepard beaten to death; Singer John Mellencamp born; ‘Cats’ hits Broadway. (Oct. 7) …read more […]
Asian shares were mixed Monday, following a healthy report on U.S. jobs, while investors cautiously awaited the upcoming trade talks between the U.S. and China. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 lost early gains to be down 0.2% in morning trading at 21,358.56. Markets in China were closed for a holiday. …read more […]
As much as $71 billion of Japanese coal assets could be at risk as the economic viability of plants is undermined by cheaper renewable energy, research by the University of Tokyo, Carbon Tracker and the Carbon Disclosure Project showed on Sunday. The report, called Land of the Rising Sun and Offshore Wind, used project financial models to analyse the economics of new and existing coal plants in Japan. It found that Japan’s planned and existing coal capacity could be jeopardised by low utilisation rates and cheaper renewable energy, namely onshore and offshore wind and large-scale solar photovoltaics (PV). …read more […]
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