World Stock Markets News

Protests in China sparked by Japan’s decision to buy a group of Islands China claims it already owns has seen share prices of Japanese companies operating in China fall on the Nikkei in Tokyo. Japanese firms have taken the decision to suspend operations at factories in China as many fear the protests could get worse. Nissan Motors has...

An announcement last week that the US Federal Reserve will be introducing measures to help boost the economy has helped to push the world’s stock markets to multi-month highs. The new securities buying programme has resulted in investors putting money into riskier stocks and assets. The markets are also being supported by expectations...

An announcement by the European Central Bank that it intends to buy bonds in an attempt to ease the debt crisis gripping the eurozone has met with positive reactions from markets around the globe. The ECB hopes that bond buying will drive down the cost of borrowing for a number of the block’s struggling economies. Earlier in 2012, the...

An announcement by the US government that the number of jobless was up over the last week has caused stocks to fall. According to the Labor Department, the number of unemployed has risen by 4,000. Experts are worried that this will mean job growth for August has slowed down compared to last month. The Dow Jones dropped 74 points on the...

Unimpressive jobs data in the US has caused shares to slip. Figures for June showed that 80,000 new jobs had been created which was 20,000 short of the figure required by the Federal Reserve to announce that the job market is stable. The Dow Jones fell 1 per cent on the report. Although President Barack Obama said the jobs figures were...

The start of the third quarter of the year has been greeted by a rise in share prices in Asia. The lift comes on the back of an agreement in Europe that leaders will shore up the zone’s banks. However, some early gains by the euro were lost as concerns persisted over the continuing debt crisis. Following a surge of 2.7 per cent on...

Italian and Spanish shares have dropped sharply with fears that the EU summit taking place this week will fail to create a deal to save the euro. The shares’ main indexes finished down by around 4 percent as Spain’s prime minister urged summit leaders to "dispel doubts" over the single currency. The US stock market was...

EU stock markets went up on Tuesday afternoon, propped up by falling UK inflation, hopes of central bank stimulus packages and positive company outcomes. The German Dax index went up 1.8 percent to 6363.4, while the French the Cac 40 index increased by 1.7 percent to 3117.9. Rising over 2 percent was the FTSE 100, which ended up by 1.7...

As borrowing costs for both Spain and Italy rose, concern remains over the eurozone debt crisis, even with the 100 billion-euro bailout of Spanish banks. Yields for ten-year Italian bonds went up from 5.758 percent to end at 6.032%. Yields for Spanish bonds were also higher, to nearly 6.5 percent, In the meantime, ratings agency Fitch has...

HTC shares have dropped 7 percent on c following the firm’s decision to lower its sales and profit predictions for the second quarter. The firm says it expects to bring in a revenue of NT$91 billion ($3 billion, or £1.9 billion) for that period, which is 13 percent less than its original projection. HTC also slashed its predictions for...