WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — It’s been an ugly month on Wall Street. The selloff that began around Sept. 18 accelerated last week and then turned vicious on Wednesday. The S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.19% is now down nearly 8% from its all-time high in September...
Greek government bond yields spiked beyond 8 percent on Thursday morning, in a sign of growing concern about the country's economic stability given the possibility of snap elections and plans to exit its bailout early. The 10-year note was yielding 8.86 at 11.00 a.m...
The selloff in global markets is set to continue as a bear market takes hold "for a long period of time," according to widely followed investor Dennis Gartman, who warned investors not to go long on stocks...
The European Union's struggle to avoid a period of falling consumer prices suffered a setback in September, as the annual rate of inflation across the bloc's 28 members fell to its lowest level in five years...
MOSCOW--The Bank of Russia continued adjusting the ruble trading band, letting the ruble weaken gradually to new all-time lows, the bank's data showed Thursday. The central bank said it pushed the ruble's trading band 25 kopecks higher to 36.95-45.95 rubles per euro-dollar basket on Wednesday...
The glacier-white PlayStation 4 will ship in the UK on Friday October 17, Sony has confirmed to GameSpot. Retailers appear to be offering these systems at a slight increase in cost, selling each 500GB unit for about £350...
The agreement signed by the two parties included amendments to the initial transaction...
"Trifles make perfection and perfection is not trifle." The major U.S. stock market indexes took a dive Monday, marking a three day downward trend for stocks driven by unease over Federal Reserve monetary tightening and a tumultuous global economy. The S&P 500 closed at 1,875, down 1...
On 13th October, 2014. At 1532ET today (Columbus Day - with half the market absent), someone - apparently having waited to see if the almost 'ubiquitous' 330pm Ramp would occur - decided it was time to dump three-quarters of a billion dollars notional of US equity market exposure in 1 second...
France’s financial markets regulator AMF earlier today published a detailed report on the results of trading of French individual investors in the Forex and CFD markets, with the data showing that cumulative losses for a period of five years exceed EUR 161 million...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Researchers at Google Inc. GOOG, +0.89% GOOGL, +0.72% have discovered a vulnerability in widely used encryption technology, Reuters reported late Tuesday, citing a Google spokesman. The bug affects SSL 3.0 protocols, according to the report. Google Class A GOOGL, +0...
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks delivered a mostly upbeat trading performance Tuesday, as the sector prepared for an onslaught of earnings reports. Intel INTC, +2.13% , which kicked off the tech results, saw shares rise more than 2% to close at $32.14...
The UK government has today successfully issued a sovereign bond in China’s currency, the renminbi (RMB), becoming the first western country to do so and issuing the largest ever non-Chinese RMB bond...
Deutsche Bank is losing some of its strongest financial performers amid a clampdown on bad behavior by traders, as the lender faces ongoing probes by global regulators into allegations of attempts to rig markets...
A bellwether Federal Reserve policymaker on Tuesday downplayed concerns about weakness in the global economy, saying the U.S. central bank should only delay an interest rate hike next year if inflation or wages fail to perk up...
Volatility has returned to the market. To be specific, the market has rallied, sold off, rallied, and sold off, all in one week. This is ideal for day traders but unnerving for individual investors. It is also a big red warning sign...
MOSCOW-- OAO Gazprom said profit for the first half of the year fell by almost one-quarter as Ukraine's Naftogaz didn't pay for gas supplied by the Russian state-controlled gas group...
Crude-oil futures tumbled again Tuesday after posting new lows for the year in overnight trade. On the New York Mercantile Exchange, light, sweet crude futures for delivery in November CLX4, -0.34% traded at $85.07 a barrel, down $0.67 in the Globex electronic session...
There is mounting chatter in commodities circles that the oil price is falling just as fast as iron ore because major producers are ramping up output to put pressure on new market entrants...
2014-10-14 00:30 GMT (or 02:30 MQ MT5 time) | [AUD - NAB Business Confidence] past data is 7 forecast data is n/a actual data is 5 according to the latest press release if actual > forecast (or actual data) = good for currency (for EUR in our case...
