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Analysis: Emerging market investors dive for stocks amid Fed storm

More hot jobs data on Friday drove the benchmark for world borrowing costs, the 10-year US Treasury yield, to its highest level in two years

Gold price breaks 3-day winning streak as US dollar, yields firm

(Reuters) - Gold prices eased ahead of key central bank meetings on Thursday as the U.S. dollar and Treasury yields strengthened a day after dismal private payrolls data sent bullion prices to one-week highs.

Stocks extend gains on strong US earnings, weak economic reports

Investors also shrugged off the pace of central banks' interest rate hikes.

US dollar holds near 18-month high ahead of busy central bank week

Market pricing now suggests a more than 90% chance of at least four Fed rate hikes by the end of the year and a 67% chance of at least five.

European stocks fall 1% as January rout rumbles on: Here's why

MSCI's 50-country main world index is now down over 8.1% for the month, which will be its worst January since the 2008 global financial crisis year.

European shares fall again after brutal week for stock markets

Strong earnings from Apple provided some encouragement for battered tech and US markets, but traders were struggling to draw a line under a global selloff that has now firmly taken root

Sensex snaps 5-day losing run, ends 367 pts up; Nifty holds 17,250

Bargain buying in banking and auto counters amid better-than-expected Q3 results by Axis Bank and Maruti Suzuki pushed the index 367 points higher at 57,858 level at close

In China, it's fear vs greed: Rally continues to raise stakes for traders

The past week shows investors need to be prepared for violent swings

Nasdaq 100's unrelenting declines ring a dot-com bust alarm bell

The Nasdaq 100 tumbled 7.5% this week as what started as an aggressive selloff in speculative corners spread to the rest of the market.

Wall Street: Tech earnings' jitters mount as pandemic darlings get crushed

More than $1.7 trillion in value has been erased from the Nasdaq 100 in January, with the tech-heavy gauge entering a correction this week after falling more than 10% from a recent peak

Asian shares slide after more losses on Wall St, Nikkei falls over 500 pts

Shares were lower in Asia on Friday after a late afternoon sell-off wiped out gains for stocks on Wall Street.

Investor wealth tumbles over Rs 3.78 trillion as equities face pressure

Investors' wealth on Tuesday tumbled by more than Rs 3.78 lakh crore as equities faced heavy selling pressure following weak global trends.

Crude oil prices steady as rising Libyan output offsets supply worries

Brent crude was down 4 cents, or 0.1%, to $86.02 a barrel by 0953 GMT. Earlier in the session, the contract touched its highest since Oct. 3, 2018 at $86.71

Stocks mixed as Beijing adds stimulus; Brent hits 3-year high of $86.7/bbl

A holiday in the United States made for thin trading, but that did not stop Treasury futures from sliding further and Brent crude hitting a three-year top of $86.71 a barrel

Buy the bounce? Investors watch valuations, technical levels to decide

The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index closed up 1.4% on Tuesday, a day after falling more than 10% from its Nov. 19 record close during intraday trading before rallying at the end of the session

Sensex rises for 3rd straight day; ends 221 pts up; Voda Idea plunges 21%

The broader markets were quiet today with the BSE MidCap and SmallCap indices ending little changed

Shares, bonds brace for high US inflation, hawkish Federal Reserve

Major share markets were muted on Monday as investors count down to another US inflation reading that could well set the seal on an early rate hike from the Federal Reserve

Emerging markets stare at higher interest rate as bond yields spike in US

The US bond market has given up all gains it made from the ultra-low interest rate policy initiated by the Fed after the Covid-19 pandemic break-out in early March 2020

Global shares mostly higher despite Covid worries after Wall Street rally

Global shares were mostly higher Tuesday despite worries about rising numbers of coronavirus cases. France's CAC 40 added 0.7 per cent in early trading to 7,266.59, while Germany's DAX edged up 0.3 per cent to 16,064.91. Britain's FTSE 100 gained 1.2 per cent to 7,475.46. The future contract for the Dow industrials was 0.2 per cent higher and the contract for the S&P 500 also gained 0.2 per cent. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 jumped 1.8 per cent to 29,301.79 in Tokyo's first trading day of 2022. Shares also rose in Australia, South Korea and Hong Kong, but edged lower in Shanghai. Toyota Motor Corp. gained 6.1 per cent, while Sony Corp. added 3.4 per cent. Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and other dignitaries rang a bell at the Tokyo Stock Exchange to herald the opening of trading. At the smaller exchange in Osaka, in western Japan, women carried on the tradition of attending the year's opening ceremony in colorful kimono. Troubled Chinese developer Evergrande announced it had .

Record wave of emerging-market IPOs meets investors wary of risk

While the price of most newly issued stocks has risen since their IPOs, the benchmark gauge of developing-economy stocks just wrapped up its worst year since 2018