(MENAFN) As investors absorbed the country’s recent released personal income and outlays data, U.S. stocks opened mixed Friday, which is the last trading day of the third quarter. In line with market estimates, U.S. personal income increased 28.6 billion U.S. dollars or 0.2 percent in August, according to the commerce Department. On the other hand, U.S. disposable personal income increased ...

A bullet train drives in Qinzhou City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Aug. 1, 2016. China has built one of the world’s most extensive high-speed rail networks in just a few years. It has the world’s longest high-speed rail network, 22,000 km as of the end of 2016, or 60 percent of the world’s total, and the mileage will ...

Sterling pared its biggest monthly gain in at least two years on Friday as disappointing economic numbers exacerbated uncertainty surrounding the Brexit talks. With the ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference starting Sunday, and a host of reports including sentiment surveys for the construction and services industries through the week, the pound could be pulled in conflicting directions, according to strategists.

TOKYO (AP) — Shares in Asia are higher after China and Japan reported stronger than expected factory data. Many markets in the region were closed Monday for national holidays. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index rose 0.1 percent to 20,376.90 and the S&P ASX/200 jumped 1.1 percent to 5,743.40. Shares in Singapore and Taiwan also gained. Markets in Hong ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shares in Asia are higher after China and Japan reported stronger than expected factory data. Many markets in the region were closed Monday for national holidays. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index rose 0.1 percent to 20,376.90 and the S&P ASX/200 jumped 1.1 percent to 5,743.40. Shares in Singapore and Taiwan also gained. Markets in Hong ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) – The euro took a knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, although surprisingly strong economic news out of China and Japan offered support to equities and commodities. The euro fell 0.3 percent after the violence-marred vote to trade at $1.1773, with liquidity lacking given holidays in ...

Mon, Oct 02, 2017 – 9:04 AM [SYDNEY] The euro took a brief knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, although surprisingly strong economic news out of China and Japan offered support to equities and commodities. The euro fell around a third of a US cent after the violence-marred ...

A study by the U.S. Census Bureau shows the Provo/Orem metro area as the seventh fastest-growing area in the United States. Now the Bureau of Economic Analysis is reporting the Provo metropolitan economy grew faster than any of the other top 100 metro economies in 2016, according to an analysis of recently released economic data. Be it people or product, ...

SYDNEY (Oct 2): The euro took a brief knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, although surprisingly strong economic news out of China offered support to equities and commodities. The euro fell around a third of a U.S. cent after the violence-marred vote to as low as $1.1776 in ...

Keep an eye on the RBA By Shane Oliver Investment markets and key developments over the past week Global share markets pushed higher over the last week as solid economic data and ongoing talk of US tax reform more than offset continuing North Korea worries. US shares rose 0.7%, Eurozone shares gained 1.3% and Japanese shares rose ...