Global shares were mostly higher Wednesday after Wall Street capped its best quarter since 1998, shrugging off continued signs of damage from the coronavirus pandemic. Global Shares France’s CAC 40 fell 0.2% in early trading to 4,925.53. Germany’s DAX gained nearly 0.7% at 12,391.72. Britain’s FTSE 100 was a tad higher at 6,170.51. U.S. shares […]
World shares were mostly lower on Monday in quiet trading ahead of Christmas holidays for many markets. World Shares The S&P 500 rose 0.5% to 3,221.22. It is up 28.5% for the year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.3%, to 28,455.09. The Nasdaq composite added 0.4%, to 8,924.96, while the Russell 2000 index of […]
Global shares edged up on Tuesday after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirmed U.S.-China trade talks will resume next month, but lingering concerns about slowing global growth reduced the overall appetite for riskier assets. Global Shares MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched up 0.1%. Japan’s Nikkei was up 0.2% after a market holiday […]