Oil edged further above $45 a barrel on Tuesday as forecasts for a drop in U.S. inventories and speculation of produceraction to prop up prices countered concern about a supply glut.Total U.S. crude inventories...
Wall Street's jump to a new all-time high on Friday and DBS's better-than-expected second quarter profit helped propel the Straits Times Index up 42.61 points or 1.5 per cent to 2,870.78, albeit in mediocre, pre-holiday...
Gold futures finished moderately higher Thursday after the Bank of England announced a rate cut for the first time since 2009 and unveiled a batch of stimulus measures aimed at stimulating the country’s economy in...
Street's avoidance of an eighth straight loss on Wednesday helped bring some stability here on Thursday via short-covering that lifted the Straits Times Index 4.38 points to 2,831.96. Bounces in Singtel, SGX and SPH contributed...
THE Singapore market fell 0.78 per cent on Thursday, with the Straits Times Index dropping 22.87 points to 2,918.62 as investors sold down oil and gas counters.About 1.25 billion shares worth S$878 million in total changed...
March natural gas NGH14 -2.32% , which became the front-month contract after the February contract expired on Wednesday, dropped 45 cents, or 8.3%, to settle at $5.01 per million British thermal units. The March contract...
Those issues will still be in the spotlight when Facebook FB +12.09% reports results after the market closes on Wednesday, though investors will likely also focus on the bright side, led by the expected gains from...
February natural gas NGG14 -1.15% advanced 19 cents, or 3.8%, to settle at $5.03 per million British thermal units on Nymex. The contract expires at the close of Nymex trading on Wednesday. March natural gas NGH14...
Yahoo Inc. YHOO -2.43% will report after the U.S. market close Tuesday.
European stocks broke a three-day losing streak, while Asia closed with mostly mild losses. Crude-oil and natural-gas prices were...
February natural gas NGG14 +1.75% lost 33.5 cents, or 6.5%, to settle at $4.847 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after earlier spiking past $5.40 in electronic trading. That...
The British pound GBPUSD +0.20% rose to $1.6606 from $1.6580 late Monday in North America.
In other action among currency majors, the dollar USDJPY +0.09% rose to 102.68 Japanese yen from...
The S&P 500’s SPX -0.49% biggest company AAPL -8.08% is generating buzz among value investors, especially after the brutal reaction to Monday’s earnings report.Apple shares were down 7.5%...
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp, Singapore’s second-biggest lender, is set to extend exclusive talks to acquire Hong Kong’s Wing Hang Bank by as much as four weeks as it needs more time to secure regulatory approval, sources...
EBay Inc. EBAY -0.31% eased under 1% in premarket. Carl Icahn said he is ready for a proxy fight to win two seats on the board of the online auctioneer, with the intent of pushing eBay to spin off PayPal.
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SINGAPORE: The Singapore Exchange (SGX) posted a two per cent on-year drop in its second quarter net profit at S$ 75 million, a shade lower than market expectations.At an earnings briefing, SGX said the securities market...
The Nikkei Average’s 0.7% gain in the early minutes of Thursday trade now seems like a distant memory, with the benchmark ending 0.8% lower. The broader Topix fared worse, with a 0.9% loss.As is often the case, the fall...
Among other stocks in focus for Wednesday, shares of Yahoo Inc. YHOO +0.42% could garner attention after mobile-marketing company Sparq said in a note on its website that it had been acquired by the search-engine...
Shares of IBM IBM -2.59% fell 3.1% to $182.59 on heavy volume after the company reported adjusted earnings of $6.13 a share on revenue of $27.7 billion. IBM was expected to report fourth-quarter earnings of $5.99...
Expedia EXPE +0.37% shares ended the day down by 4.5% at $67.67, after Internet search information site SearchEngineLand said Expedia’s search visibility on Google GOOG +0.01% has recently fallen by 25% due...
The Hang Seng Index HK:HSI +0.57% edged up 0.4% to 23,008.26. Mainland banks shined, after China's central bank said it has provided emergency funding support to commercial banks to meet demand for cash ahead of Chinese...