Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed Friday as investors worried again about the state of the global economy. India’s Sensex was the biggest mover of the day after the Congress Party and the Communist Party there came to an agreement to jointly study a proposed nuclear energy deal with the United States, [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed on Monday. The Australian market saw declines, with the Sydney Ordinaries 0.19 percent lower to 6,298.6 and the S&P/ASX200 closing lower to 6,263.3. While retailers saw gains, banks were mostly lower and miners were mixed. Elsewhere in the region, the Straits Times index added [...]

On Wall Street Tuesday the equities markets were a bit higher at midday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average 0.1 percent higher to 12,778.87. The Nasdaq had added 0.4 percent so far on the session to 2,506.20, while the S&P 500 was up 0.2 percent to 1,458.13.
Oil and related sectors were lower after weather [...]

Wall Street was up in afternoon trade on Wednesday after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress that the US economy continues to grow and inflation is beginning to recede. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 0.7 percent to 12,742.02, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.4 percent to 2,492.98 and the S&P 500 [...]

Trade in the London equities markets was slow again on Tuesday, as only 2.6 billion shares changed hands on the session. Still, both the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 saw gains on the day. The 100 added just 0.03 percent to 6,242, while the 200 was 0.2 percent higher to 11,131.
The energy sector [...]

The UK equities markets were lower on Friday, hurt by Thursday’s losses in New York and concerns that the US economy is cooling down. The FTSE 100 dropped 1.2 percent on Friday to 5,822.3, a decline of 55 points on the week. Meanwhile, the FTSE 250 was 0.7 percent lower on the session [...]

Wall Street was down on Monday as crude oil prices were once again on the rise as worries grew once again over Iran’s insistence on continuing its nuclear development program. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the session 0.3 percent lower to 11,345.05, while the Nasdaq Composite dropped 0.8 percent to 2,147.75 and the [...]

Midday on Wall Street saw the main indexes down amid profit-taking following gains on Wednesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped 0.4 percent to 11.092.99. The Nasdaq composite was nearly unchanged at 2,284.09, but the S&P 500 had fallen by 0.3 percent to 1,289.
The Nasdaq was helped by a 3.1 percent rise [...]

The London equities markets ended the day and the week at high levels on Friday, as the mining, banking, and energy sectors saw gains but retail and newspapers were hit by declines.
The FTSE 100 was up 0.3 percent on the day and 1.4 percent on the week to 5,846.2, its highest closing since June 2001. [...]

In Europe on Thursday, the FTSE Eurofirst 300 was up 0.6 percent to 1,339.02. That was its highest close in over 4 years. At least part of the day’s advance was due to favorable earnings reports in several sectors.
In the banking sector, Societe Generale reported a higher than predicted rise in fourth-quarter profits, [...]