Foreign Exchange News

NEW YORK (CNNmoney.com) - Bonds rose and the dollar gained Friday as traders looked ahead to next week's jobs report and a speech by Alan Greenspan. In the Treasury bond market, the benchmark 10-year note rose 11/32 to 100-17/32 to yield 4.43 percent, down from 4.47 late Wednesday. The 30-year bond added 25/32 to 110-17/32 to yield 4.66 percent, down from 4.70 in the previous session. Bond ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - U.S. stocks closed higher after an abbreviated session Friday, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite at fresh 4 1/2-year highs and retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy in focus as the Christmas shopping season got underway. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) closed up 15.53 points at 10,931.62, marking an eight-month high. The day's gains marked the sixth c ...

The US Federal Reserve ruffled a few feathers this week by hinting it may be drawing near to a pause in its 18-month long monetary tightening cycle. // But in a week dominated by a global game of cat and mouse between central bankers, the dollar actually managed to claw its way modestly higher. The release of the minutes of the November meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee, at which the Fed funds rate had been raised for the 12th straight meeting to 4 per cent, was the key event of the ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - U.S. stocks were higher in light volume post-holiday trade Friday as investors readied for an early close, with retailers like Wal- Mart Stores and Best Buy in focus as the Christmas shopping season gets underway. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) was off its highs, up 15.46 points at 10,931.55. The S&P 500 (SPX) was up 1.72 points at 1,267.33 as the Nasdaq Co ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - U.S. stocks were off their highs in light volume post- holiday trade Friday morning, with retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy in focus as the Christmas shopping season gets underway. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) was up 16.89 points at 10,932.98. The S&P 500 (SPX) was up 1.16 points at 1,266.77 as the Nasdaq Composite gave up initial gains to trad ...

CHICAGO (Dow Jones) - The dollar gained against the yen Friday after a report of flat consumer prices in Japan backed expectations that the ultra-easy monetary policy there isn't ending soon. "The Japanese CPI releases revealed that consumer prices are indeed finally stabilizing but have not yet shed the deflationary pressures that have dogged the country for the better part of the last decade, ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - U.S. stocks moved higher at the opening Friday, with retailers like Wal-Mart Stores, Target and Best Buy in focus as the Christmas shopping season gets underway. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) was up almost 37 points at 10,953. The S&P 500 (SPX) was up 2.89 points at 1,268.50 and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.67 points at 2,261.65. There were more than 76 m ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - The dollar gained against the yen Friday after a report of flat consumer prices in Japan backed expectations that the ultra-easy monetary policy there isn't ending soon.   MARKETWATCH TOP NEWS European bourses gain in thin trade Shop before you drop..and then some Aegis declines as WPP walks away from bid; FTSE rises Nikkei gains for seventh sessi ...

CHICAGO (Dow Jones) - The dollar on Wednesday hit three-week lows against the euro and Canadian dollar and one-week lows against the yen and pound, continuing a decline spawned by a revised outlook for U.S. interest rates. Minutes from the Federal Reserve's Nov. 1 meeting released Tuesday showed a continued focus on combating inflation, but also showed that some at the U.S. central bank had mul ...

NEW YORK (Dow Jones) - U.S. stocks are headed for a flat opening Friday, with retailers like Wal-Mart Stores, Target and Best Buy in focus as the Christmas shopping season gets underway. The futures contract for the Dow Jones Industrial Average last was up just 2 points at 10,944. The futures contract for the S&P 500 was down 0.40 point at 1,268.20 as the Nasdaq 100 futures contract trad ...