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Korea’s benchmark Kospi index is up 0.32 percent at 1,970 points.

The gauge gained 0.4 per cent to 3,098.29 at the 11:30 a.m. local- time break in volumes 47 per cent below the 30-day average.

The CSI 300 Index of the biggest companies traded in Shanghai and Shenzhen rose 4.98 percent or 157.02 points to end at 3,309.25 points.

The use of position limits may be expanded to other contracts if upcoming legislation requires them, the exchange added in a statement. So the Fed needs other tools to influence rates. Markets are also split on what a rate move might mean for markets. He says that the outlook for...

While analysts, economists and investors are eagerly waiting to see whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates after its meeting later this week, Appelbaum drove into the mechanics of how such a rate hike would work in this weekend’s paper.

During the last week in August, the People’s Bank of China drew the attention of traders worldwide by cutting the benchmark lending rate 0.25 percentage point to 4.6%.

While Yao Yudong, head of the People’s Bank of China Research Institute of Finance and Banking, last week blamed the Fed for the market turmoil and said a US hike should be delayed, most central bankers from emerging markets contacted by Reuters said it will be better if...

North American stock markets seesawed once again on Wednesday as investors couldn’t decide whether to be encouraged by China’s recent move to stimulate its economy or anxious that Beijing thinks it needs stimulus in the first place.

Stocks jumped on Wednesday as global markets showed tentative signs of regaining their footing after an extended rout fueled by growth concerns.

China’s central bank cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves banks must hold for the second time in two months on Tuesday, ratcheting up support for a stuttering economy and a plunging stock market that has sent shockwaves around the globe. The Nasdaq...

U.S. stocks rebounded in afternoon trading Wednesday after slumping for six straight days on concern that growth in China was slowing more quickly than previously thought.

The People’s Bank of China reformed the exchange rate formation system on August 11 to better reflect market development in the exchange rate of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar.

The last market correction was four years ago.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 was last down 5 percent at 1,355 points, wiping around 400 billion euros ($460.16 billion) off the index and taking its losses for the month to more than 1 trillion euros. The Nasdaq composite declined 19.76 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,506.49....

China’s central bank today (Aug 25) cut interest rates and lowered the amount of reserves the country’s banks must hold, cranking up support for a stuttering economy and a plummeting stock market that has sent shockwaves around the globe.