56 h. ago Asian shares are mixed and US futures edge higher after Wall Street steadies

Shares are trading mixed in Asia after Wall Street broke a two-day losing streak, edging back toward record levels

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3 d. ago Asian shares are mostly lower and oil sinks $2 after Trump says Iran stopped killings

Asian shares are mostly lower after Wall Street retreated on Big Tech losses

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4 d. ago Asian benchmarks are mixed after Wall Street pulls back and global uncertainty grows

Asian shares are trading mixed after Wall Street pulled back from its recent records and as political uncertainty brewed in various regions, including in Iran

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6 d. ago US futures slip while Asian shares gain as Fed chair Powell faces Trump legal threat

US futures experienced a dip on Monday, contrasting with gains across Asian markets, after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell revealed the Department of Justice had served the central bank with subpoenas.

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1 week ago Asian shares trade mixed after Wall Street hits records on tech gains

Asian shares are trading mixed, calming down somewhat from the buzz set off by recent record rallies on Wall Street, while investors' attention turned to global interest rates and the political uncertainty caused by developments in Venezuela

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1 week ago Asian shares and US futures advance and oil prices fall back

Asian shares and U.S. futures have advanced after stocks closed higher on Wall Street

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2 w. ago I’m a futurologist – here’s my six BIG predictions for 2026 including a huge turning point

FUTUROLOGIST Tom Cheesewright reckons 2026 could be a mix of old and new – as people go back to basics amid the AI revolution. Experts are already mapping out some of the coolest potential advancements as tech firms ramp up their weird and wonderful inventions. Tom said: “The mad thing is, technology makes it easier...

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2 w. ago Asian shares trade mixed with some exchanges closed ahead of the New Year

Major Asian stock markets, including Tokyo and Seoul, are closed for the yearend and New Year’s holidays, while trading was mixed in those bourses that remained open

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2 w. ago Asian shares follow Wall Street lower in final stretch of 2025

Shares are mostly lower in Asia and U.S. futures are flat after stocks slipped on Wall Street

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4 w. ago Flamboyant, furious and full of hope: CMAT is the sound of 2025 | John Harris

The Irish singer-songwriter does what the best musicians do: perfectly crystallising their time while inspirationally taking a stand against itWhat has it felt like to be alive in 2025? The basic answer probably touches on a few aspects of the 21st-century experience. One is the horror and conflict that seem to define the news almost every day. Another centres around the material pressures that increasingly grip supposedly peaceful countries: the never-ending cost of living crisis, and the impossibility for millions of people of a secure job, a dependable home and some halfway viable idea of the future.Something else demands a mention: the all-pervading mixture of absurdity, nastiness and anger fostered by the internet. Bigotry runs rampant. What we still rather laughably call social media now seem to operate on the basis that the ideal story mixes wildly improbable elements with the kicking-up of moral outrage (witness that ghoulish “online content creator” Bonnie Blue, who, having...

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last month Asian shares advance after weaker US price data push Wall Street higher, and a rate hike in Japan

Shares are moderately higher in Asia and U.S. futures are mixed after the Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to the highest level in 30 years

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