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Asian stocks rose modestly on Thursday, taking their cue from gains on Wall Street as the region braced for a resumption of trading in the Chinese markets after a week-long break. Overnight on Wall Street, the S&P 500 .SPX soared to a 3-week high thanks to a bounce in biotechnology companies. Materials shares also enjoyed a positive session on the back of gains for precious metals. Chinese stock markets, which have been hit by wild swings in recent months due to growth and policy worries, re-open later in the session after shutting since the end of September for holidays.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian shares hit an eight-month high on Tuesday as optimism about Chinese measures to boost economic growth lifted mainland markets, however, worries about U.S. earnings and a crucial Brexit summit this week limited gains. FILE PHOTO: Men look at stock quotation boards outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 0.3 percent, hovering near its highest level since Aug. 9 last year.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks reached a more than four-month high on Wednesday, lifted by optimism that the United States and China might be able to hammer out a deal to resolve their nearly year-long trade dispute. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians are reflected on an electronic board showing Japan's Nikkei average (top L), the Dow Jones average (top R) and the stock averages of other countries outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.6 percent to its highest level since early October and Japan’s Nikkei average climbed 1.3 percent to an eight-week high.
LONDON (Reuters) - European stocks were sucked back into the red on Tuesday, as a four-day global selloff took Asia to a 17-month low and left Wall Street on course to equal its longest losing streak of the year. FILE PHOTO: The London Stock Exchange Group offices are seen in the City of London, Britain, December 29, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo There was plenty to keep the stress levels high. Ongoing worries about Italy’s finances pushed its borrowing costs to their highest since 2014 and the euro lower, while U.S.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Asian shares rose on Monday, boosted by record Wall Street highs on Friday after reassuring comments from the Federal Reserve’s chairman, and as stock markets in China gained after the country’s central bank tweaked its management of the yuan. A man is reflected in an electronic stock quotation board outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan February 9, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan . MIAPJ0000PUS was up 1.1 percent, while Japan's Nikkei stock index .
A raft of strong US earnings sent the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to record closes on Tuesday. Coca-Cola, United Technologies, Twitter, Hasbro and Lockheed Martin all delivered earnings beats. More than 78% of S&P 500 earnings have beaten Wall Street forecasts this quarter. The rally ended there. Asian and European stocks and crude oil prices were down on Wednesday. Watch the S&P 500 and Nasdaq trade live. The US stock rallies to all-time highs on Tuesday are giving traders signs of deja vu.
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