Wall Street was lower in mid-afternoon trade on Tuesday ahead of next week‘s decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve. The Dow Jones Industrial average was 0.13 percent lower to 13,297.66 while the Nasdaq Composite was down 0.26 percent to 2,630.22 and the S&P 500 had dropped 0.33 percent to 1,467.62. Declines [...]

Wall Street closed lower on mixed signals concerning the subprime crisis. While Bears Stearns’ (NYSE: BSC) CFO said that his company will take $1.2 billion in write downs in the fourth quarter, less than had been feared, HSBC (LSE: HSBA; NYSE: HBC; Euronext: HSBC; SEHK: 005) warned that it will have to write down [...]

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 [...]

Wall Street was significantly lower in midday trade on Friday after Wachovia (NYSE: WB) fed concerns about the credit crisis when it said it could write down as much as $1.1 billion just in October. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was 1.18 percent lower to 13,109.48 while the Nasdaq Composite had dropped 2.1 percent [...]

European markets were mixed Thursday, with more losers than gainers. The gainer was Madrid’s IBEX, which added 0.5 percent to 15,507.1. Elsewhere, the pan-European FTSE Eurofirst 300 was down 0.78 percent to 1,572.92. In Frankfurt, the Dax dropped 0.8 percent to 7,921.4. The Paris CAC-40 fell 0.89 percent to 5,767.24. [...]

Equities markets in Asia and the Pacific were mixed on Wednesday, with most major markets seeing declines on the session. The most notable decline came in India, where the Sensex dropped 1.76 percent to 18,715.82 after dropping nearly 10 percent at one point in the day, forcing trade to stop for an hour. [...]

Asia-Pacific region equities markets were mixed on Monday. In Australia, the S&P/ASX200 was 0.74 percent higher to 6,654.3 while the Sydney Ordinaries added 0.75 percent to 6,667.2. South Korea’s Kospi index was up 0.84 percent to 2,012.82. The Taiex index gained 1.04 percent to 8,717.17 in Taiwan, while the Shanghai Composite jumped [...]

Shares in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed Wednesday. Gainers included Taiwan’s Taiex index, which was 0.8 percent higher to 9,700.07. The Kospi index was up 2.62 percent to 2,014.09 in South Korea, while the Shanghai Composite gained 2.64 percent to 5,552.3. In India, the Sensex was up 2.99 percent to 17,847.04. [...]

Equities markets in London were lower in Friday trade. The FTSE 100 fell 0.3 percent to 6,466.8 while the FTSE 250 was 0.02 percent lower to 11,037.4. Miners were mixed. Lonmin (LSE: LMI) added 7.39 percent to £36.49 on a rise in platinum prices and on the possibility that Xstrata (LSE: XTA) [...]

Asia-Pacific region equities markets saw gains on Thursday on continuing indications that the US Federal Reserve will see the need to cut interest rates again soon after the Commerce Department there reported that durable goods orders were lower in August. In Australia, the Sydney Ordinaries and the S&P/ASX200 each rose by an identical 0.87 [...]