Asia-Pacific region equities markets were down Monday on the expectation that banks will report further losses due to exposure to the US subprime mortgage crisis. The biggest loss among major indices came in Hong Kong, where the Hang Seng dropped 3.88 percent to 27,665.73, a loss of 1,117.68 points on the session. The [...]

London’ equities markets saw substantial declines again on Monday. The FTSE 100 was 1.69 percent lower to 6,182.8 and the FTSE 250 dropped 1.91 percent to 10,745.3. Northern Rock (LSE: NRK) was the biggest decliner on the 100 as it fell 35.45 percent to 282.75p, followed closely by Alliance & Leicester (LSE: AL) [...]

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 [...]

Asia-Pacific region equities markets were mostly higher on Tuesday. The exception was the Shanghai Composite, which dropped 0.07 percent to 4,210.33 on the session. In India, the Sensex added 0.4 percent to 15,794.92. The Hang Seng index in Hong Kong was 0.46 percent higher to 23,472.88, while in Singapore the Straits Times [...]

Equities markets in the Asia and Pacific regions saw gains on Thursday. After a day off yesterday for the Anzac Day holiday, the Sydney Ordinaries added 0.26 percent to 6,189.4. In India, the Sensex gained 0.08 percent to 14,228.88. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was 0.64 percent higher to [...]

The FTSE Eurofirst 300 was higher on Wednesday, but only by 0.9 points to 1,440.02 as investors were reluctant to do much ahead of new data on US employment, due to be released Thursday.
Banks were higher after Anglo Irish Bank said that its full-year pre-tax profits were higher than had been expected and predicted that [...]

The New York equities markets were mixed at midday on Thursday on news from corporate earnings reports and new data from the Philadelphia Fed that showed its manufacturing index down 0.7 percent in October when an advance had been predicted. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 0.15 percent higher to 12,011, while the Nasdaq [...]

The FTSE Eurofirst 300 was up 0.2 percent to 1,366.30, a new four and a half year high, on Tuesday, largely on advances in the automobile manufacturing sector.
BMW added 2.9 percent to €41.87 after having gone as high as €42.57 earlier in the day. The gain came after UBS upgraded the company’s shares to [...]

In Tokyo on Friday, the equities markets were down on declines in domestic stocks, including the real estate sector, which fell as foreign investors continued to pull out of the Japanese market.
The Nikkei 225 was down 2.1 percent on the day to 15,713.45, a three-week low, and the Topix index dropped 1.6 percent to 1,605.33.
Real [...]