On Tuesday the yen and the Aussie gained in Asia after the release of solid Japanese manufacturing data and as investors eyed comments in a letter released by the Federal Reserve chief...
U.S. stock futures struggled between gains and losses on Monday as oil prices gave up most of their gains earlier, while shares of Pfizer Inc. and Allergan PLC were down over 2% after the companies concluded a merger deal that will create the world’s largest drug maker by sales...
On Monday copper prices fell to the lowest level since May 2009, as the possibility of higher interest rates in the U.S., a broadly stronger greenback and slower global economic growth, especially in China, weighed on the the non-ferrous metal market...
The upcoming week is expected to be less busy, than the previous one with the U.S. markets closed on Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday and Friday being a half day. Tokyo is closed Monday for a national holiday...
On Friday the euro weakened on remarks from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, who hinted strongly at ECB action as soon as the December meeting...
The greenback was higher against the yen and the euro on Friday, as demand for the former remained underpinned by growing hopes for a December rate increase by the Federal Reserve...