Gold prices set a fresh all-time high on Thursday above $1,225 a troy ounce, supported by renewed weakness of the US dollar and strong money inflows.Gold held in trust across the largest bullion-backed exchanged traded funds rose to a neak peak of 1
The FTSE 100 moved toward its high for the year in opening trade on Wednesday, helped by well-received corporate news flow. But traders were looking ahead to important inflation and unemployment data due later in the morning, and there was a feeling
The six-month rally in risk assets showed little sign of fading this week as investors marked the anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse by driving equities and credit indices to new highs for the year.This appetite for risk, buoyed by further sig
HONG KONG, September 18 – Asian stocks retreated from 13-month highs on Friday and commodity prices dipped after data giving a conflicting picture about the strength of the US recovery stopped investors from extending this week’s rally.Hirohide Yama
BANGKOK - Asian stock markets climbed to new highs for the year Thursday after strong U.S. industrial production data boosted confidence the world's largest economy is growing again. European shares were higher. Oil prices hovered about $72, lifting
HONG KONG, Sept 15 – Asian stocks drifted back near one-year highs on Tuesday as investors looked past a trade spat between the United States and China, with exporter shares in Japan getting a lift as the yen’s surge relented. The Nikkei average edg
FORT WORTH, Texas - An on-the-ground military review of the war in Afghanistan is likely to paint a grim but realistic view of what is needed to win it, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday. Touring a Lockheed Martin plant in Texas where fight
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