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Many traders had hoped that such support measures, which could include an interest rate cut, would have come from Beijing over the weekend after its main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week. The world’s second-largest economy moved two weeks ago to devalue its...

South32’s inaugural result will be crucial to provide investors with clarity, UBS analyst Glyn Lawcock told The Australian Financial Review.

The dollar index, which measures its performance against a basket of six major currencies, fell 0.9pc to its lowest in two months.

(Close): Wall Street fell for a fifth consecutive trading session amid a dramatic global sell-off as fears over China’s slowing economy intensified.

The minutes to the July 28-29 meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee, released last week, showed both a caution over still-low inflation and a concern over China’s economic malaise.

Many traders had hoped Beijing would take support measures, such as an interest rate cut, over the weekend after China’s main stocks markets slumped 11 percent last week.

Oil prices fell. But investors also saw opportunity, moving fast and early to snap up some bargains.

It’s ugly. But before you panic, let’s put this in perspective. “As it stands, the FTSE 100 is on course to post its biggest weekly decline of the year so far and there’s not a great deal on the agenda that would appear to have the ability to salvage the...

The New York Stock Exchange invoked a rule saying market makers don’t have to disseminate price indications before the opening bell in an effort to make it easier and faster to open stocks on a volatile trading day.

Mumbai/Nagpur: The stock market seems to be moving in just one direction, as the Sensex’s south-bound journey on the back of relentless selling pressure shaved 800 points off the index in last two days.

The New York Stock Exchange invoked a rule saying market makers don’t have to disseminate price indications before the opening bell in an effort to make it easier and faster to open stocks on a volatile trading day.

The latest session saw the main index in Shanghai dive by a further 8.5%, deepening its recent heavy slump and meaning it has lost all its gains for 2015.

“We have to waste time putting the dots together”.

The TOPIX index of all First Section issues ended down 92.14 points, or 5.86 percent, at 1,480.87, the lowest level since February 17.

By increasing demand for them, the government hopes prices will rise. As the slide highlighted on Monday, those efforts have not been a success.