Australia Matteo Colombo | Digitalvision | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets jumped on Tuesday as investors monitor the latest developments in the Iran war, with U.S. President Donald Trump looking to delay his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping by “a month or so” due to the Middle East conflict. Trump was expected to travel to…
A screen displays Nikkei 225 Stock Average inside the Kabuto One building in Tokyo, Japan, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. Japanese stocks surged to fresh record highs, while bonds dropped, after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party secured a landslide victory. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets…
Commercial vessels are pictured offshore in Dubai on March 11, 2026. – | Afp | Getty Images Asia-Pacific markets fell Friday as oil prices soared on renewed fears that a prolonged conflict in the Middle East could further crimp energy supplies, stoking fears of a global economic downturn. Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said…
A prolonged surge in natural gas prices triggered by the ongoing war in the Middle East risks denting European growth and hitting some Asian economies hard, analysts have warned. Global gas prices have soared this week amid fears of a lengthy disruption to energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz — a key shipping route…
Hyperscalers are significantly ramping up their AI capex spending — and increasingly using credit markets to fund it. But investors say this shift is challenging mega-cap tech giants’ so-called ‘fortress balance sheet’ status, and rips up what they call the “unspoken contract” that kept speculative AI spending largely separate from debt markets. After Amazon, Meta…
The stock market staged a comeback last week, even as Wall Street waded through a flurry of both upbeat and unsettling headlines. The Nasdaq broke its five-week losing streak on Friday, buoyed by strong advances from our big tech names like Meta Platforms , Nvidia and Amazon . The tech-heavy index ended the week 1.9%…