
Tokyo: Asian shares on Thursday recovered a bit of the ground lost in the previous day's sell-off, but investors found no reason to bet on risk amid deepening turmoil in Greece and fears of contagion to other stressed euro zone economies. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.5 percent on short covering, after sliding more than 3 percent - its biggest one-day drop in six months...

10:51 AM, May 17, 2012

The euro plunged to a 4-month low after Greece failed to form a coalition government and a fresh round of elections is in the offing. ...

08:30 AM, May 17, 2012

Tokyo: Asian shares steadied on Thursday from the previous day's sell-off, but investors found no reason to bet on risk amid deepening turmoil in Greece and fears of contagion to other stressed euro zone economies. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched up 0.1 percent, after sliding more than 3 percent for its biggest one-day drop in six months on Wednesday. The index hit a new 4-month low...

08:07 AM, May 17, 2012

New Delhi: The Greek tragedy continued to sink markets across the world. The euro plunged to a 4-month low after Greece failed to form a coalition government and a fresh round of elections is in the offing. Analysts say US markets are bracing themselves for the worst. Stock markets fell on worries that Greece would exit the euro bloc and throw the global markets into further turmoil. New elections were...

07:40 AM, May 17, 2012

Berlin: New speculation that France could be downgraded by ratings agencies triggered a massive sell-off of shares across Europe on Wednesday, wiping out gains recorded in Tuesday's session and cutting short hopes that markets will make a quick recovery before the global debt crisis escalates. European shares rebounded in early trade on Wednesday and recouped much of the losses registered in the days since Standard & Poor's downgraded the US...

10:55 AM, Aug 11, 2011

The European market surprisingly opened up after ECB decided to buy the bonds of Italy and Spain. ...

07:47 PM, Aug 08, 2011

London: European shares reversed earlier losses and traded higher on Monday morning, with traders saying the European Central Bank was in the market buying bonds issued by Italy and Spain. On Monday morning, Spain's IBEX 35 index .IBEX surged 3.6 percent and Italy's FTSE MIB .FTMIB rose 4.4 percent, while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 was up 0.6 percent at 981.30 points after falling as low as 961.32 earlier. ...

01:45 PM, Aug 08, 2011

US stocks slid more than 5 per cent on Wednesday. ...

10:09 AM, Nov 20, 2008

Trading halted in many stock markets across the globe. ...

09:11 PM, Oct 10, 2008

After Wednesday's bloodbath, the markets opened on a very strong note on Thursday in line with its Asian peers. ...

10:49 AM, Mar 15, 2007