European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, remaining on pace to end a fourth straight week of gains that has taken the greenback to its highest level since 2010.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Treasury Department on Friday again refused to label China a currency manipulator, a move that drew a quick rebuke from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. on Friday called on China to allow its currency, the yuan, to appreciate further, but the Treasury Department once again stopped short of accusing Beijing of manipulating the currency.
After H.J. Heinz pared its forecasts on Thursday, Wall Street analysts lost their taste for the ketchup-maker. Though sales in emerging markets are growing at a nice clip, lagging U.S. operations remain a big challenge for Heinz (ticker: ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
NEW YORK—There's a new top dog in the world's major currencies: the Canadian dollar. Canada's ascension to the throne of most liked outside the world's reserve currencies is evidenced by recent moves in the spot market--where the loonie, as ...
For all those complaining about how the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies are debauching the currency, a look at artist Sean Monaghan's re-renderings of legal tender will be scary.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand—For the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, 2011 was a banner year, both on the field and in the foreign-exchange market.
SHENYANG, China—BMW AG and its joint-venture partner Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Ltd. will invest €500 million ($628.6 million) to increase production capacity in China, the German car maker said Thursday, suggesting that ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
The king is dead and has been replaced. After sitting upon a perch as the darling of the currency market for two years, the Australian dollar is out and the Canadian dollar is in.
LONDON—Currency markets traded steadily after a turbulent few days ahead of the long weekend in the U.S., helping the euro and higher-yielding currencies that are enjoying a rebound from lows seen earlier this week.
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Brazilian stocks rose Friday, buoyed by gains in housing issues, but the market still faced its fifth consecutive weekly decline.
For the euro area's policy makers, there's one path forward in the Greek drama that's even worse than the country plunging itself into chaos by splitting from the currency union: that it leaves, and thrives.