Amazon helps stocks steady but prospects for rate hikes loom over markets

  • 📰 ChannelNewsAsia
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 38 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 18%
  • Publisher: 66%

Canada News News

Canada Canada Latest News,Canada Canada Headlines

SINGAPORE : Asian equity markets fought for a footing on Friday, supported by an Amazon-led bounce in U.S futures, but oil's rise to a seven-year high kept traders on edge over prospects that interest rates will rise to curb global inflationary pressures.MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outsid

SINGAPORE : Asian equity markets fought for a footing on Friday, supported by an Amazon-led bounce in U.S futures, but oil's rise to a seven-year high kept traders on edge over prospects that interest rates will rise to curb global inflationary pressures.

The Bank of England raised rates to 0.5per cent and nearly half its policymakers wanted a bigger increase. The S&P 500 had its worst day in nearly a year. [.N] Meta plummeted more than 26per cent on Thursday, losing more-than-$200 billion of its market capitalisation in what was the largest single day slide in value by a U.S. company. It dragged the Nasdaq down 3.7per cent, its worst day in 17 months.

Yields in Europe leapt overnight after the ECB's hawkish turn, with the yield on benchmark 10-year German bunds up 12 basis points to an almost three-year high of 0.155per cent. Treasuries also sold overnight and were steady in Asia, with the two-year yield at 1.2179per cent and the 10-year yield at 1.814per cent. [US/]

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 6. in CA

Canada Canada Latest News, Canada Canada Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Amazon trots out YouTube-sized advertising businessNEW YORK : Amazon pulled the veil off its sprawling advertising business for the first time on Thursday, revealing a business larger than that of Google's YouTube.Amazon reported ad revenue of $9.7 billion for the fourth quarter, up 32per cent from last year, and $31 billion for the year.YouTube po
Source: ChannelNewsAsia - 🏆 6. / 66 Read more »