Japanese stocks fell for a second session, giving up early gains, as sales to investors to take profits and rebalance positions at the end of the month overshadowed a batch of technology companies that announced positive profits. Investors are growing concerned about more market turmoil as retail frenzy boosts market …

Data from the Turkish Statistics Institute showed that the country’s foreign trade deficit rose 16% year-on-year in December to $ 4.53 billion according to the general trade system, bringing the 2020 deficit as a whole to nearly $ 50 billion. The institute said Turkey’s exports fell 6.3% last month, and …

Gold prices are trading in a narrow range today, Friday, but prices are on the path of recording a weekly and monthly decline as the high dollar dispels the lustre of the yellow metal. Spot gold rose 0.2 $ to 1844.86 dollars an ounce. Prices fell 0.5% in the week …

Official data published today showed that France’s economy contracted again in the fourth quarter of last year, but not to the extent expected after facing a second wave of isolation measures aimed at combating the spread of the Corona virus. The National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies said that …

Oil prices stabilized, to remain in the ranges recorded over the past three weeks, at a time when investors looked for indications of a change in the fundamental factors of supply and demand. A Saudi cut in oil supplies and a decline in crude stocks in the United States contributes …

Inflation in Germany, measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), came at 0.8% in January, according to the flash estimate of Destatison Thursday. Moreover, the annual CPI rose to 1% from -0.3% in December.

There were 847,000 initial claims for unemployment benefits in the US during the week ending January 23, the data published by the US Department of Labor showed on Thursday. This reading followed the previous print of 914,000 and came in better than the market estimates of 875,000.

The United States’ Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded at an annual rate of 4% in the fourth quarter, the US Bureau of Economic Analysis’ advance estimate showed on Thursday. This reading followed the 33.4% growth recorded in the third quarter and came in line with analysts’ estimates.

The most prominent event on the US calendar today is the fourth-quarter GDP report due out at 13:30 GMT. Economists are expecting the preliminary figure to show 3.9% year-on-year growth in the October-December period, which indicates growth losing momentum by a large margin compared to the strong recovery in Q4 …

Al Naji Iqbal, Governor of the Turkish Central Bank, said that Turkey’s economic growth recorded a strong trend at the end of 2020, but it slowed according to recent indicators, partly due to the tightening of monetary policy that began in August and the slowdown in credit growth. In the …