In Australia on Monday the Sydney Ordinaries added 1.41 percent to 6,461.1 and the S&P/ASX200 was up 1.47 percent to 6,451.5. The gains came on a report that miner BHP Billiton (ASX: BHP; NYSE: BHP; LSE: BLT) will soon say that it has found a large new deposit of gold in South Australia. […]

Asia-Pacific equities markets saw gains, many of them substantial, on Wednesday after the US Federal Reserve decided on Tuesday to cut US interest rates by 0.5 percent to 4.75 percent. The only major exception was the Shanghai Composite, which dropped 0.55 percent to 5,395.26 in China. In Taiwan, the Taiex added 0.3 percent […]

London’s equities markets were up significantly on Tuesday. The FTSE 100 added 2.39 percent to 6,280.7, while the FTSE 250 gained 2.16 percent to 11,212.3. There were only two losers on the 100. Consumer electronics retailer DSG International (LSE: DSGI) dropped 0.2 percent to 146.9p. Pest control and facilities services group […]

Most Asia-Pacific equities markets were lower again on Wednesday on reports of declining consumer confidence in the United States and on the sharp drop in US markets on Tuesday.
In Australia, the S&P/ASX200 and the Sydney Ordinaries dropped by an identical 1.23 percent to 6,100.3 and 6,101.4 respectively. The declines there came in […]

Asia-Pacific equities markets were lower on Friday, extending Thursday’s declines and in some cases exceeding them. The biggest loser on the session was Taiwan’s Taiex index, which dropped 4.22 percent to 9,162.28, its steepest decline in over a year. South Korea’s Kospi index also lost more than 4 percent, dropping 4.09 percent to […]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mostly lower again on Thursday. The Shanghai Composite was again an exception as it added 0.52 percent to 4,346.46, a new record high, on corporate profits reports that have been better than anticipated in the first half of the year. The other exception was India’s Sensex, […]

The Tokyo equities markets saw gains on Monday, despite investor caution ahead of a decision on US interest rates by the US Federal Reserve and the release of the latest Tankan survey from the Bank of Japan, both due soon. Also limiting gains was a significant decline in the consumer finance sector. The […]

Tokyo equities markets saw decline on Monday as the Nikkei 225 fell 0.6 percent to 16,022.46 after going below 16,000 earlier in the day. The Topix index was 0.8 percent lower to 1,568.76.
The losses came on anticipated gross domestic product figures, due Tuesday, which many expect will say that the Japanese economy only grew […]

Technology stocks helped send the Tokyo equities markets lower on Tuesday. The Nikkei 225 and the Topix index each lost 0.5 percent on the session, to 15,473.82 and 1,585.85 respectively.
The electronics sector was down on a strong yen and on declines in tech stocks in New York overnight. Sony dropped 0.2 percent to […]