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Japanese stocks closed higher on Friday, boosted by strong corporate earnings and the expectations of domestic companies, with Tokyo Electron leading the gains after raising its annual profit forecast. The Nikkei index rose 0.31 percent to close at 27,670.98 points, after rising 0.8 percent earlier in the session. The index …

European stocks touched a nine-month high on Thursday, supported by earnings data from companies including Germany’s Siemens and Britain’s AstraZeneca, which helped ease concerns raised by Federal Reserve officials after they stressed the need for more interest rate hikes. The Stoxx 600 index of European shares rose 0.8 percent by …

Japan’s Nikkei closed lower on Thursday, retreating from its highest level in nearly two months, as the benchmark tracked the weak performance on Wall Street after investors had long been wary of higher US interest rates. The earnings season witnessed a mixture of winners and losers among the major companies. …

Sideways trading tended to be negative, as the movements of EUR/USD were confined between the support of the psychological barrier of 1.0700 and the resistance level of 1.0800/1.0780. Technically, we tend to be negative in our trading, relying on the continuation of the pair obtaining negative pressure from the simple …

The GBP/USD pair trades around 1.2070, holding on to modest intraday gains. The Euro is one of the weakest rivals of the US dollar. The shared currency is trading at 1.0716 as ECB policymakers repeated their hawkish language. ECB’s Klaas Knot said that headline inflation appears to have peaked but …

On Wednesday, ECB policymaker Klaas Knot said that the headline inflation appears to have peaked, adding that keeping current pace of hikes into May could well be needed if underlying inflation does not materially abate.Knot’s comments do not seem to be helping the Euro gather strength against its rivals. As …

European stocks hit their highest level in more than nine months on Wednesday, as investors got positive cues from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s comments on Tuesday, while the upbeat outlook of Linda and Akzo Noble led to higher materials stocks. Crude and chemicals. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was …

Japan’s Nikkei fell on Wednesday amid heavy selling in stocks of major technology companies such as Nintendo and SoftBank Group after disappointing financial results, dashing any hopes of capitalizing on Tuesday night’s gains on Wall Street. Investment group SoftBank fell 5.1% after posting a quarterly loss, while video game maker …

Negative trades dominated the pair’s movements within the negative technical outlook, as we expected during the previous technical report, heading towards the first target to be achieved at 1.0660, recording its lowest level at 1.0665. On the technical side, the pair tried to compensate for the losses during the Federal …

Public transport, schools and oil refineries were disrupted in France on Tuesday as trade unions led a third wave of a nationwide strike against President Emmanuel Macron’s plans to extend the working years for French people before retiring. Strike movements in many sectors and street protests on Tuesday come hours …