Analysis: Indices

A solid earnings season and some concerns

With 18.2% year-on-year EPS growth, the fourth quarter of 2024 was another excellent year for Corporate America. But for 2025, the risks are mounting, and analysts are revising their forecasts...

OPEC+ to proceed with planned April oil output hike, sources say

LONDON -OPEC+ has decided to proceed with a planned April oil output increase, three sources from the producer group told Reuters on Monday. OPEC+, which includes OPEC members plus...

China targets US agriculture over Trump tariff threat, Global Times says

China has American agricultural exports in its cross hairs as it prepares countermeasures against fresh U.S. import tariffs, China's state-backed Global Times reported, raising the stakes in...

Asia shares in tense wait for tariff news, bitcoin surges

Asian share markets dithered on Monday as the threat of imminent tariffs lurked in the background, while bitcoin surged on news it would be included in a new U.S. strategic reserve of...

S&P500 in red for 2025 as trade war fears ratchet

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The S&P500 stock benchmark plunged into the red for the year this week as an Nvidia-led selloff, economic slowdown...

Stocks slump, dollar towers as Trump tariff threat roils markets

Equities slumped in Asia on Friday and the U.S. dollar hovered near multi-week highs against the currencies of the country's top trading partners as concerns about an escalating global trade war...

Alberta projects C$5.2-billion budget deficit if Trump tariffs proceed

Canada's oil-producing province of Alberta on Thursday forecast a budget deficit of C$5.2 billion for the 2025/26 fiscal year if U.S. tariffs are implemented and decrease government revenues and slow...

Tariffs, tech fatigue rev up month-end turbulence

A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.  A mega wave of regional economic data breaks on Asian markets on Friday, with investors already bracing for a nervous end to the month as they...

Panama concerned about economic toll of Cobre Panama mine closure

Panama's President Jose Mulino said on Thursday the Central American nation's economy was reeling from the closure of Canadian miner First Quantum's Cobre Panama mine, once the world's biggest copper...

Trump's new tariffs stir wave of trade frictions against Chinese steel

China's giant steel industry is facing mounting pressure on exports this year as it faces another wave of trade frictions from U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs. Trump announced...

Panama delays Cobre Panama copper mine decision pending social security reform

Panama President Jose Mulino will only take a decision regarding the future of the Cobre Panama mine after he resolves the issue of the country's social security policy, a supplier of the Cobre Panama...

US Budweiser, Michelob prices safe from tariff impact for now

Tariffs on aluminium should not have a major impact on the U.S. prices of beers like Budweiser and Michelob Ultra in 2025, but could at a later date, Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Michel Doukeris said on...

TEXT-Framework agreement of US, Ukraine on developing critical minerals

Following is the full text of a framework agreement between Ukraine and the United States on the joint development of rare earths, critical minerals, oil, gas and other natural resources. ...

TSX futures advance on upbeat bank earnings

Futures for Canada's main stock index rose on Wednesday as robust earnings for National Bank of Canada boosted sentiment, while investors looked ahead to chip giant Nvidia's quarterly results. ...

Where does the US get its copper?

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he planned to announce a 50% tariff on copper imports later in the day, surprising a global industry whose output is critical to electric vehicles, military...

Yields slumps with dollar as US growth worries weigh, Asia shares edge up

A slide in U.S. Treasury yields dented the dollar on Wednesday, and oil prices also struggled as worries over the outlook for the world's largest economy grew, while Asia shares rose ahead of AI...

G20 finance ministers, central bankers to meet amid fractious geopolitics

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and...

Trump orders new tariff probe into US copper imports

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday opened yet another front in his assault on global trade norms, ordering a new probe into possible new tariffs on copper imports to rebuild U.S. production of a...

Global debt marches to record high, raising risk of bond vigilantes, IIF says

The global debt-to-GDP ratio rose for the first time since 2020 last year, as the world's debt stock hit a new year-end record of $318 trillion and economic growth slowed, an Institute of...