The dollar fell against the yen and traded near a five-week low against the euro after Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said the U.S. current account deficit will probably...
Oil prices held close to $50 a barrel on Wednesday ahead of U.S. inventory data that is expected to show tighter supplies in the world's biggest oil consumer as a result of Hurricane Ivan. New York...
Oil prices raced to new record highs above $50 on Tuesday as rebel threats against Nigerian oil facilities threatened to inflict further strain on global supplies. U.S. light crude touched a high...
Tokyo's Nikkei fell 0.33 percent on Monday, dropping for a seventh straight day in its longest losing streak since December 2002, as worries about oil prices and data showing weaker business...
Oil prices held steady above $48 on Friday as the U.S. government said it would lend refiners crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), but traders deemed the loan too small to have a lasting...
Stocks stalled early Thursday, one session after a steep selloff caused the Dow's biggest one-day point drop in nearly seven weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average (down 135.75 to 10,109.18,...
The International Monetary Fund has warned that rising interest rates in some of the world's biggest economies may slow global house price growth. Most at risk are some of the world's richest...
U.S. oil prices slipped below $48 on Thursday on expectations that the United States might loan some crude to U.S. refiners from its strategic petroleum reserve after weather-related disruptions led...
Stocks slumped early Wednesday, pressured by disappointing corporate news and a new spike in oil, one session after the Federal Reserve opted to boost short-term interest rates. After 10 minutes of...
The U.S. Federal Reserve on Tuesday raised interest rates for the third time this year by a quarter of a percentage point and said the economy was regaining momentum, signaling at least one more to...