Market Update

Japan’s Nikkei fell at the close on Wednesday from a three-decade high hit in the previous session as investors took profits after a strong rally in the past two weeks, as regulatory concerns in China weighed on SoftBank Group and real estate stocks. The Nikkei index fell 0.52% to close …

Britain’s inflation rate hit its highest level in more than nine years last month after the biggest monthly jump to the annual rate in at least 24 years, in large part due to an extraordinary increase due to a program to cut food prices last year. Consumer prices rose 3.2% …

European shares fell Wednesday, September 15th on concerns about a slowdown in the Chinese economy, a decline in travel and leisure stocks, and rising inflation in Britain, and the impact on sentiment in early trade. By 07:11 GMT, the European STOXX600 index was down by 0.1%. Asian shares fell after …

Oil prices rose on Wednesday, September 15th, after data showed a larger-than-expected decline in crude stocks in the United States, the largest consumer of fuel in the world, in addition to expectations of a recovery in demand with the expansion of vaccinations. But the decline in China’s consumption of crude …

Manufacturing Sales in Canada declined by 1.5% on a monthly basis to C$59.6 billion in July, the data published by Statistics Canada revealed on Tuesday. This reading followed June’s expansion of 2.1% and came in worse than the market expectation for a decrease of 1%.

The US inflation data was released moments ago, and the markets waited for this data strongly to determine whether the inflation rate is exacerbating or is still under control, and these data are currently used to pressure the US Federal Reserve to announce the start of tightening its monetary policy …

Japan’s Nikkei index closed at a more than 31-year high Tuesday, September 14th, led by cyclical stocks that tracked Wall Street’s gains, while progress in a domestic vaccination campaign boosted hopes of reopening the economy. The Nikkei index rose 0.73% to close at 3,0670.10 points, its highest level since August …

Oil prices hit a six-week high on Tuesday on fears that another storm could affect production in Texas this week, even as the US crude industry struggles to return to normal production levels after Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast. Oil prices rose for the third consecutive session, …

The dollar settled below a two-and-a-half-week high on Tuesday, September 14th, hit in the previous session, as investors braced for inflation data that may provide indications of the timing of the US Federal Reserve’s policy tightening at its meeting next week. Ahead of the US central bank’s policy review scheduled …

Hurricane Ida halted production of about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day at the end of August, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, August 14th. The authority added that oil stocks of the OECD countries fell by 34.4 million barrels in July to 2.850 billion barrels. The agency cut …