China has weakened the renminbi’s trading band for a record 11th straight day, taking its currency to an eight-year low as expectations of US interest rate rises buoyed the dollar against the region’s currencies.…
You can read our charts-based explainer here. Sometimes the end of an era comes imperceptibly, with it only becoming apparent long…
The market interpretation of the US election result can be expressed in just three letters, repeated several times: “USA! USA! USA!”…
Friday 06:00 GMT. The US dollar continues to push higher and sovereign bonds remain under pressure, while major equities benchmarks are…
For much of the last decade the derivatives industry has been caught in the gravitational pull of the Dodd-Frank act, the…
November 17, 2016 by: Anjli Raval, Oil and Gas Correspondent Worries are growing that a build-up of unsold oil off the…
Rising market expectations for growth and inflation were not the only things behind the selling pressure on US Treasuries after the…
Amid all the attempts to guess what Donald Trump’s election means for Europe’s trade, security and populist politicians, one conclusion stands…
Janet Yellen, the Fed chair, is signalling that the US central bank is reluctant to delay its next increase in short-term…
Thursday 08:30 GMT. European and US equity gauges are subdued as government bond yields dip from multi-month highs and the dollar…
Since last week’s US elections, emerging market assets have been spooked by the possibility of higher US interest rates and greater…
Amid his display cases of gold coins and jewellery, Suresh Jain was in bullish spirits as he considered Indian households’ traditionally…
Global investor expectations of inflation have surged to their highest level in more than a decade, according to a survey of…
A popular measure of the dollar climbed to its highest level in more than 13 years, propelled by the expectation of…
The trade-weighted dollar has hit its highest level since the day US forces closed in on the capture of Saddam Hussein…
Wednesday 09:20 GMT. European stocks are tracking a mostly positive showing in Asia as Wall Street eyes record highs on hopes…
At the end of last week, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand cut interest rates. It could yet prove the last…
The main US markets regulator on Tuesday approved a plan to introduce a vast surveillance system to monitor trading on the…
Donald Trump’s election victory heralds the beginning of a new era that will be marked by the retreat of globalisation and…
There are few things like a bull market to turn an investor’s head. Just look at China. Having slumped almost 50…
A sell-off reverberating through sovereign bond markets tested investor appetite on Monday for a multibillion-dollar corporate bond sale, as money managers…
November 15, 2016 by: Peter Wells in Hong Kong Tuesday 03.35 GMT. The US dollar has retreated from recent highs, leaving…
With US president-elect Donald Trump’s governing priorities slowly starting to take shape, the US steel industry emerged on Monday as one…
Brent crude oil dropped below $44 a barrel on Monday to hit its lowest level for three months, as a strengthening…
US bank shares have staged the sharpest recovery rally since Wall Street emerged from the financial crisis in 2009, underlining the…
Copper recorded its best week in five years as speculators scrambled to reverse bearish bets following the election of Donald Trump…
The election of Donald Trump represents a “tectonic shift” for global economics and politics, and will help kill the three-decade bond…
On Wall Street the S&P 500 has surged to within touching distance of a record high, with the US equity market…
