A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee After drowning for days in headlines about Donald Trump’s return to the White House, investors were delivered a bit of a diversion on Thursday with the announcement

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China announced plans on Thursday to channel hundreds of billions of yuan annually into shares from state-owned insurers, in the government’s latest effort to support equity markets. Authorities will in the first half of this year call on

By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African Reserve Bank will trim its repo rate next week by a quarter of a percentage point to 7.50% and repeat that in March, but then delay its final 25 basis point cut

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s key consumer price gauge rose 1.8% in December from a year earlier, higher than economist forecasts and the lowest in more than three years, official data showed on Thursday. The core inflation rate, which excludes private road

(Reuters) – Japanese investors raised their holdings in foreign stocks, driven by a benign U.S. core inflation report that fuelled expectations of Federal Reserve cuts and boosted global equities, while a strong yen also lifted domestic buying power. They invested a