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News Source: Kyodo News
| 2 months ago
Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Tuesday, with the benchmark Nikkei index recovering the 9,000 level and up from a five-year and five-month low Friday, as investors were assured recent action and pledges by governments and central banks worldwide...
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News Source: Kyodo News
| 2 months ago
Tokyo stocks ended Wednesday mixed, with the key Nikkei index erasing sharp losses in early trading and ending more than 1 percent higher on last-minute buying, as investors were faced with a mixed outlook for the financial crisis and global economy.
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News Source: Kyodo News
| 2 months ago
Tokyo stocks snapped a seven-day losing streak Tuesday morning, with the key Nikkei index gaining about 13 percent from a five-year and five-month low Friday, as investors were assured recent actions and pledges by governments and central banks...
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News Source: The Examiner
| 2 months ago
Stock markets in Europe and Asia rose strongly for a second straight day Tuesday after Wall Street rallied from its worst week ever on mounting evidence that government attempts to shore up the world's battered financial system are beginning to thaw...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 2 months ago
President George Bush and some of world's top financial leaders are repeating pledges of unity in their battle to restore stability and growth to the global economy. Mr. Bush held a White House meeting Saturday with finance ministers from the Group...
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News Source: Houston Chronicle
| 2 months ago
As international leaders gathered here on Saturday to grapple with the global financial crisis, the Bush administration embarked on an overhaul of its own strategy for rescuing the foundering financial system. Two weeks after persuading Congress to...
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News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
China will boost domestic demand to sustain the nation's ``fast and stable'' economic growth, central bank Deputy Governor Yi Gang said. ``Despite the negative shocks of the financial crisis, China will accelerate transformation of the growth model,...
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News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 months ago
World stocks fell Wednesday after poor US retail sales data stoked concerns that global efforts to restore confidence in the financial system will not be enough to stave off a deep recession. Wall Street followed Europe and most Asian stocks in...
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News Source: CNN
| 2 months ago
Stocks were poised for a positive start Tuesday, hoping to build on Monday's historic rally, as investors cheered the global response to the financial crisis and awaited further news about the U.S. plan. About four hours before the markets open, S&P...
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News Source: The Age
| 2 months ago
Investors still were agonising over frozen credit markets, but seven days of massive losses and the possibility of further government support for the markets tempted some investors late in the session...The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 10.70 or 1.