World stock markets soar after last week's rout

Oct. 13, 2008

HONG KONG (AP) -- Global stock markets rebounded strongly on Monday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia and the U.S. intensified efforts to ease a financial crisis that threatened to the throw the world into recession....

Asia-Pacific markets up after early losses

TOKYO, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- Major Asia-Pacific markets pared off opening losses Friday and closed in positive territory, giving a hopeful sign for next week's sessions.

Asia-Pacific markets nosedive

TOKYO, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Major Asia-Pacific stock markets closed with big losses Thursday after a steady sell-off in step with a similar disastrous closing overnight on Wall Street.

Major Asia markets close up

TOKYO, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- Major Asia-Pacific stock markets managed to hold on to some of their early gains and close up Friday, encouraged by a strong performance on Wall Street.

Asia-Pacific markets plunge

TOKYO, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Major Asia-Pacific stock exchanges closed sharply lower Thursday as investors took to the sidelines on rising concerns of a prolonged global slowdown.

U.S. markets falter Monday

NEW YORK, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- An early rally in U.S. markets sputtered Monday, despite a global rally that began with China announcing a $586 billion economic spending package.

Asia-Pacific markets advance

TOKYO, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The election of Barack Obama as the next U.S. president helped lift Asian-Pacific stock exchanges Wednesday, most of them closing with impressive gains.

Investors watch polls, but cheer credit

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Investors are keeping their eyes on election results, but cheering new movement in credit markets, a U.S. market analyst said.

Nikkei closes up 6.27 percent

TOKYO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Japan's Nikkei index, spurred by a weaker yen and a calmer Wall Street, closed sharply higher Tuesday while other Asian-Pacific markets were mixed.

Nikkei down 5 percent despite rate cut

TOKYO, Oct. 31 (UPI) -- Japan's Nikkei index closed sharply lower Friday despite the central bank's interest rate cut, while other Asian-Pacific markets closed mixed.

U.S. markets shoot up, then down

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes zoomed up before nose-diving Monday as a September rebound in new housing sales failed to stem worldwide recession fears.

Market guessing favors doomsayers for now

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Some U.S. investors say it's just a guessing game but that doesn't stop market analysts from predicting where stock markets are going to go next.

Recession fears weigh on stocks worldwide

PARIS, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Markets in Asia and Europe slid further Monday, as recession fears and a rising yen battered stocks on several continents.

Asia-Pacific markets plunge

TOKYO, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- From Tokyo to Mumbai, it was another rout Monday of the Asian-Pacific markets with Japan's Nikkei index closing at its lowest level in 26 years.

Markets tumble Friday as economies crawl

NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. stock indexes spiraled lower Friday, closing out a day that exacerbated worries that economies worldwide are entering a prolonged slowdown.