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Asian shares near a three-year peak, dollar soft in US deadlock trade

A gauge of Asian shares was set to cling to a near 3-year peak while the dollar stayed sluggish as prospect of a divided US legislature dimmed the chance of major policy changes, lifting risk appetite

Asian share markets follow Wall Street higher on US gridlock bets

Asian share markets firmed while bonds held big gains as investors awaited a clear result from the US election, with the likely prospect of policy gridlock seemingly welcomed by Wall Street overnight

Riding high

High liquidity, low interest rates lead to stock market upswing

Global stock markets retreat after Donald Trump tests Covid-positive

While Trump was said to be experiencing only mild symptoms, his diagnosis adds to gloomy developments around the virus as big cities once again turn into hotspots.

Traders shun risky assets as new lockdowns loom, global stocks tumble

Stocks across the world hit their lowest in seven weeks and other risk assets sold off on Monday

Not Tesla or FAANGs, swelling optimism boosts Sea Ltd's shares by over 880%

After a rocky first year of trading, Sea's stock has gone on to trounce everything in its class

Wall Street snaps 2-day slump amid rally in tech shares, oil prices

Stocks have rebounded sharply since late March from the coronavirus-fueled sell-off, helped by massive monetary and fiscal stimulus

Amidst the gloom and doom, the market's exuberance is confounding

For the sake of context, the financial crisis of 2008 had seen the S&P 500 fall by more than 50 per cent from its peak

Covid-19 impact: Investors flip over 2020 to bet on 2021 for buy signals

Wall Street's fear gauge, the Cboe Volatility Index as well as the Euro STOXX 50 volatility index have steadily dropped over the past month to the low 30s

Rate cut losing its potency as an instrument to stimulate growth: Analysts

People remain a little skeptical on how much rate cuts can aid economic recovery at a time when coronavirus is getting a tighter grip on the world

From Trump to Musk, how one tweet from them moves markets across the globe

When you consider how instantaneously social media information is spread, Twitter is contributing to the efficient functioning of financial markets

Global stock markets: Goldilocks fights back but bears still swinging

Copper, one of the industrial metals seen as a sensitive gauge of global economic health, climbed over 1.3 per cent