European equities markets were higher Thursday, as Portugal came closer to asking for a bailout after the Prime Minister there turned in his resignation and Fitch Rating cut the nation’s credit rating to A minus, although Portuguese officials continued to deny that they are getting ready to ask for help. The FTSE 100 was up [...]

European equities markets were higher Wednesday, although gains were modest for the most part in London and elsewhere. The FTSE 100 added 0.58 percent to 5,795.88 in London, while the FTSE 250 was up 0.05 percent to 11,447.3, with miners leading gains on both indexes, while the energy sector and retailers were mixed and utilities [...]

After the Federal Reserve announced that it has cut interest rates by another quarter point to 4.5 percent, New York equities markets were mixed at midafternoon after having traded uniformly higher before the decision was released. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.21 percent on the day so far to 13,821 up again after [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were higher again on Monday, with some indices reaching new records. In India, the Sensex rose above 20,000 for the first time, going as high as 20,024.67 during the session on record buying from investors in Europe and the United States. While the index dropped back below the 20,000 [...]

Global equities markets were higher on Thursday, with many indices in the Asia-Pacific region and in Europe rising by more than 1 percent – and in a few cases by more than 2 percent – on the session. In Asia, Korea’s Kospi index added 2.7 percent to 1,769.8 on huge gains among brokerages and shipbuilders. [...]

Equities markets in Asia and the Pacific were mixed but largely lower on Friday. The Sensex was 2.06 percent higher to 13,384.08 in India, but most other indices saw declines. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong dropped 0.19 percent to 20,340.97, while in Singapore the Straits Times index fell 0.28 percent to 3,373.59. In [...]

In Europe on Tuesday the FTSE Eurofirst 300 was up a slight 0.1 percent to 1,315.53 after having gone as high as 1,321.01 during the day. Even though the day’s advance was so small, Citigroup issued an over-all positive statement on European equities markets, saying that it expects a slowdown but not a recession, and [...]