http://www.ft.com/Financial TimesReaction to Opec's 2.2m barrel production cut remained muted, with crude prices tracking multi-year lows even as the dollar continued to weaken http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1218200807504486482008-12-18T07:35:13.0000000-05:00The pound dropped to a fresh record low against the euro, breaking through the £0.95 level for the first time, as the prospect of further interest rate cuts from the Bank of england continued to punish the currency.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1218200810505486662008-12-18T06:25:14.0000000-05:00Retailers were the focus of attention in European equity markets as French supermarket group Carrefour announced that it expected this year's earnings growth to fall short of expectationshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1218200809570586612008-12-18T06:11:59.0000000-05:00London equities were flat on Thursday, after one of the few major potential mergers of the year failed to progress into a full deal. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1218200803452586152008-12-18T03:32:38.0000000-05:00Asia-Pacific shares were mixed on Thursday as the global economic slowdown continued to hurt company earnings, while the drop in oil below $40 per barrel took its toll on some producer shareshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1218200800145386062008-12-18T00:00:50.0000000-05:00US government bonds soared and the dollar came under intense pressure as investors considered the implications of the Federal Reserve's dramatic interest rate cuthttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200815091285192008-12-17T17:53:24.0000000-05:00The levels of severe pessimism that have sent investors fleeing to the safe havens of government bonds and cash are bottoming out, a global survey of fund managers has foundhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200813270784802008-12-17T13:12:47.0000000-05:00The Opec oil cartel announced a further – and record – 2.2m barrels a day cut on top of the 2m b/d it had pledged since September in an attempt to shore up falling oil prices. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200811204384512008-12-17T11:57:10.0000000-05:00Wall Street stocks were set to retreat from their monthly high as euphoria over the Federal Reserve's interest rate cut to virtually zero fadedhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200808570484302008-12-17T08:50:37.0000000-05:00European equities fell on Wednesday, with renewed pressure on financial stocks following a profit warning overnight from BNP Paribas.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200807023384172008-12-17T06:57:11.0000000-05:00Sterling fell to a record low against the euro and lost ground against the dollar after the minutes of the Bank of England's December meeting raised expectations that it would follow the Federal Reserve and slash interest rates aggressively.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200810152584442008-12-17T06:28:23.0000000-05:00London equities moved higher in opening trade on Wednesday, as traders welcomed the Federal Reserve's latest reduction in US interest rates. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200803453383922008-12-17T03:33:31.0000000-05:00Property companies boost the Hang Seng 0.6% per cent to 15,220.68 and the Shanghai Composite index gains 1.3% to 1,999.926, led by financials and steel companieshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1217200801213283852008-12-17T01:05:34.0000000-05:00The currency's growing strength puts pressure on the Bank of Japan to cut interest rates from their current level 0.3 per cent to 0.1 per cent at its meeting that starts on Thursdayhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200823504483842008-12-16T23:36:42.0000000-05:00Emerging market funds have had their poorest year since records began because of the violent sell off in risky assetshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200815320983082008-12-16T15:21:20.0000000-05:00The Federal Reserve caught financial markets by surprise on Tuesday as it lowered its target for overnight lending from 1 per cent to between zero and 0.25 per centhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200815204683012008-12-16T15:09:20.0000000-05:00Aluminium prices sank to a five-year low on Tuesday, breaching $1,500 a tonne, amid fears about deteriorating demand in China and the UShttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200815031582952008-12-16T14:53:39.0000000-05:00Goldman Sachs reported a loss of $2.12bn, or $4.97 a share, for the fourth quarter, its first quarterly loss since going public in 1999http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200809510882062008-12-16T09:43:00.0000000-05:00Wall Street stocks were set for a lower start after figures from Goldman Sachs and more economic data provided fresh insight into difficulties facing financial institutions and the scale of the recessionhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200809212582032008-12-16T09:05:34.0000000-05:00Oil traded around the $45 a barrel level, ahead of this week's Opec meeting, while gold dipped ahead of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve which was expected to deliver a further reduction in US interest rateshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200807264281782008-12-16T07:19:30.0000000-05:00The dollar edged higher against the euro on Tuesday after posting sharp losses in the previous session as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200807203381732008-12-16T07:10:24.0000000-05:00European shares edged up led by defensive stocks as a key sentiment indicator for eurozone business did not fall as sharply as expected. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200806511281692008-12-16T06:41:57.0000000-05:00Shares in Carpetright and Kesa tumbled after the retail groups said they were finding it tough going in the current environment and financial stocks remained under pressure as the fallout from the Madoff scandal spreadhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200804210781562008-12-16T04:29:15.0000000-05:00Investors are cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve's widely expected rate cut later on Tuesday and in anticipation of a round of negative earnings at US bankshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1216200804513881602008-12-16T00:29:59.0000000-05:00The world's top three rubber producing countries plan to cut exports by one-sixth next year to stem declining priceshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200816023280822008-12-15T15:51:45.0000000-05:00Analysts say potential losses from CDPCs are significantly smaller than those from monolines, but that they could still be materialhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200816023380832008-12-15T15:51:45.0000000-05:00The KSE-100 index fell 370 points to close at about 8,817 points, well below the floor of 9,144 points imposed since Augusthttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200815321580722008-12-15T15:18:09.0000000-05:00The dollar came under further pressure and US stocks lost ground as investors fretted about the outlook for the economyhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200815271780712008-12-15T15:17:07.0000000-05:00Millions of dollars in Argentine pension fund assets have been frozen to prevent the money leaving the US at the request of bondholders hit by the South American country's 2001 default.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200811265179902008-12-15T11:19:16.0000000-05:00Wall Street stocks were set to begin the week in mixed fashion as commodity sector gains could offset ongoing uncertainty over the future of the country's car industry and concerns of investor exposure to Bernard Madoff's alleged $50bn fraud.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200809151579672008-12-15T09:01:36.0000000-05:00Oil prices rebounded strongly, ahead of this week's Opec meeting, while base metals rose and gold gained as commodity markets staged a broad based recovery http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200807021879572008-12-15T06:51:03.0000000-05:00The dollar dropped to a two-month low against the euro and lost ground elsewhere as concerns over the health of the US economy and the impact of the US government's rescue plans weighed on the currency.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200806202479542008-12-15T06:06:09.0000000-05:00London equities started the last full trading week of 2008 with gains, with recovering crude prices energising oil stocks. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1215200804091779332008-12-15T03:56:40.0000000-05:00Worries about the potential fall-out from a collapse of the Detroit carmakers on the wider US economy unsettled global equity markets and the dollarhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200814563876362008-12-12T14:40:27.0000000-05:00Wall Street stocks were set for a sharply lower start after the collapse of the $14bn bill to provide urgent funding for the ailing US car industry heightened the risk of an imminent failure and subsequent economic fallouthttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200810445275682008-12-12T08:57:57.0000000-05:00The investment bank almost halved its forecast for next year's oil price as it warned of the impact of the global recession on demand for energyhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200807140075422008-12-12T07:03:09.0000000-05:00Sterling slid to fresh lows against the euro on Friday, and simultaneously fell against the yen and the dollar, as the rapid deterioration in UK economic data continued to hammer the poundhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200807013075402008-12-12T06:45:40.0000000-05:00European markets sank sharply on Friday after the bailout talks for the embattled US carmarkers collapsed and JP Morgan said it had a terrible November and December, knocking the banking sector.http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200806015175322008-12-12T05:50:35.0000000-05:00European equities were hit hard by a flurry of volatility spurred by the wider economic implications of the failure of the US auto bail-out http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200804023375152008-12-12T03:51:33.0000000-05:00The dollar slid to its lowest in 13 years against the yen as the senate failed to agree on a bailout for the three US automakershttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1212200800495775142008-12-12T00:37:16.0000000-05:00Illinois postpones $1.4bn bond sale, as Standard & Poor's warns it might cut the state's credit rating in the wake of Rod Blagojevich's legal troubleshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200817261774512008-12-11T17:11:25.0000000-05:00The dollar touched its lowest level for six weeks against the euro and for seven weeks against the yen as investors digested dismal data from America where unemployment has hit a 26-year highhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200814260573912008-12-11T14:11:06.0000000-05:00The US commercial paper market has expanded at its fastest pace in six weeks, increasing $48.6bn, spurred by the Fed's Commercial Paper Funding Facilityhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200813193073782008-12-11T13:08:57.0000000-05:00Mainland Chinese shares traded in Hong Kong have climbed 70 per cent since most Asian markets bottomed out at the end of Octoberhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200813143173762008-12-11T13:04:23.0000000-05:00Sterling touched a fresh all-time low against the euro on Thursday, as the outlook for the UK economy darkened further amid a blitz of negative economic datahttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200808020973202008-12-11T07:48:25.0000000-05:00Oil prices rose amid mounting expectations that Opec will announce a substantial supply cut at the oil producers' meeting next week while gold maintained a hold above the $800 levelhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200807555573192008-12-11T07:43:35.0000000-05:00Russia's central bank allowed the rouble to weaken against its dollar/euro basket on Thursday, the fifth time the currency's depreciation has been stage managed by authorities in six weekshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200807075973152008-12-11T06:58:02.0000000-05:00European markets edged lower as papermakers were knocked by poor results and metals and drugs stocks sank on jitters about a global recession. http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200807013473142008-12-11T06:48:55.0000000-05:00London equities were little changed on Thursday, but retailers came under further pressure after music store chain HMV missed profit forecastshttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200803565272842008-12-11T03:46:26.0000000-05:00Korean shares gained on Thursday following a reduction in interest rates. However, the gains were limited and the rest of the region's markets were mixedhttp://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto1211200800380972782008-12-11T00:25:10.0000000-05:00