Global Stock Market

European shares extended gains on Thursday, a day after achieving their best session since the beginning of the year, boosted by the rise of German shares that received a boost from strong quarterly earnings growth for Siemens. Siemens shares jumped 7.3 percent after the company said it was seeing “extraordinary” …

Japanese stocks rose on Thursday as technology shares followed their peers that made solid gains on Wall Street late Wednesday, although caution ahead of US data releases weighed on investor sentiment. The Nikkei index rose 0.42 percent to close at 27,696.08 points, after jumping more than one percent earlier in …

Easing government bond yields weighed on the US dollar, which anyway ended the day with mixed performance across the major currencies. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note stands at around 1.93%, down from its weekly peak at 1.97%. The GBP/USD pair is unchanged on a daily basis trading …

Wall Street jumped on Wednesday, closing sharply higher as megacap growth stocks powered up thanks to a pause in rising interest rates, and upbeat earnings reports also encouraged investors to buy.The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield slipped from multi-year highs hit in the previous session, helping steady sentiment across global …

Ahead of Thursday’s key US Consumer Price Index data scheduled for New York’s morning session, the White House says tomorrow’s inflation data will show a high year-on-year figure.The White House states that its irrelevant month on month number will continue trending lower the rest of the year.The consensus in the …

Isabel Schnabel, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), mentioned during a Twitter session of Q&A that rising interest rates would not lower energy prices. She added that if current inflation “threatens to lead to a de-anchoring of inflation expectations, we may still need to respond”. …

The US trade deficit widened in December as imports soared, hitting the largest-ever level in all of 2021. The Commerce Department said on Tuesday that the trade deficit rose 1.8 percent to $80.7 billion in December. November’s data was revised down to $79.3 billion, instead of $80.2 billion in the …

The price of the euro settled on Wednesday, at a level below its highest level in three weeks after Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank played down the possibility of a significant rate hike. The dollar stabilized a day before the US consumer price index data, which may …

Lyft reported fourth-quarter results that beat estimates for adjusted earnings per share and revenue, but said it had fewer active passengers than the previous quarter. Shares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading after executives said the Omicron virus variant will affect first-quarter numbers. Earnings per share were adjusted 9 …

Japanese stocks closed higher on Wednesday after a rally led by the technology sector overnight on Wall Street, as investors bought shares of companies that reported strong results with sentiment rising further thanks to the approaching earnings season. The Nikkei index advanced 1.08 percent to close at 27,579.87 points, while …