U.S. manufacturing activity contracted in June for the fourth month in a row, but it did so only slightly while a rising number of new orders indicated the sector will expand in the second half of...
The US has stopped military aid to 35 countries, several of them future EU members, after their refusal to sign bilateral agreements with Washington exempting US nationals from the International...
02/07/2003
Tokyo's Nikkei average jumped three percent on Wednesday, its biggest gain in seven months, to end at a nine-month high as heated activity and improving corporate sentiment encouraged investors to...
02/07/2003
U.S. markets, higher for the year, await ISM report and other economic reports The second half of 2003 begins Tuesday on Wall Street with investors finding out if one closely watched measure of...
01/07/2003
Japan's Nikkei average closed at a nine-month high on Tuesday as core blue chips such as NEC Corp extended recent gains after upbeat results in a key corporate survey underlined optimism over the...
01/07/2003
Companies in Japan are betting on a brighter future according to new figures, reinforcing hopes that the Japanese economy may finally be turning the corner. Less than a week after Japanese factories...
01/07/2003
Japan closed flat but other Asian markets weakened Monday as investors ruled off their books for June. Seoul was down sharply. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 average ended just 0.06 percent higher at...
30/06/2003
Stocks are headed for a modestly higher open on Monday as investors await a dose of regional manufacturing data and make last-minute adjustments to their portfolios on the final day of the second...
30/06/2003
Wall Street was expected to open flat on Friday as economic data came in line with expectations, disappointing some participants who were hoping for better news. Futures trading was fairly flat,...
27/06/2003
Although the outbreak of SARS is likely to knock some of the shine off it, the strength of China's economy is having a growing impact on world trade THE full effects of Severe Acute Respiratory...
27/06/2003