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) with a [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed on Monday, with losers outnumbering gainers. Many markets were hurt by news that there were fewer jobs in the United States in August as well as on new data showing that Japan’s economy contracted by an annualized rate of 1.2 percent in the second quarter of the [...]

Equities markets in the Asia-Pacific region were mixed on Thursday, with the Shanghai Composite adding 1.56 percent to 5,393.66 as it fell back slightly after reaching a new record high during the day. The gains came after reports that the Chinese government will soon launch trade in stock index futures. Other regional markets that saw [...]

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 the banking [...]

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, which gained [...]

Global equities markets saw gains on Tuesday. In the Asia-Pacific region, there was at least one record set as the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong closed at its highest level ever, adding 1.74 percent to end the session at 22,151.14. The Hong Kong market has been helped recently by a decision by Chinese authorities [...]

The majority of Asia-Pacific equities markets saw losses on Tuesday. The Sensex was an exception, but even there the gain was only 0.09 percent to 14,501.08. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index was 0.09 percent lower to 21,803.57. The Sydney Ordinaries dropped 0.33 percent to 5,337.3 in Australia. The big loser of the day [...]

Asia-Pacific equities markets were mostly higher again on Wednesday. The main exception was South Korea’s Kospi index, which dropped 1.3 percent after several record-setting sessions in a row to 1,783.79 as investors took profits in the brokerage sector, which had driven much of the earlier gains. The biggest gainers in the region included Bangkok’s SET [...]

Equities markets in Asia and the Pacific were lower on Friday. The biggest losses came in India, where the Sensex dropped 2.25 percent to 13,908.58 on profit taking after four consecutive days of gains. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng index fell 0.68 percent to 20,526.5, while in Singapore the Straits Times Index was 0.81 [...]

Equities markets in the Asia and Pacific region were mixed on Wednesday. Both the Sensex in India and the Sydney Ordinaries in Australia dropped 0.05 percent on the session, to 13,183.24 and 6,136.1 respectively. The Straits Times index in Singapore was 0.16 percent higher to 3,420.62, while the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong added [...]