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Sanctioned tanker turns back to Strait of Hormuz, day after Gulf exit

The US-sanctioned tanker Rich Starry made its way back to the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday after exiting the Gulf the day before, shipping data showed, failing to break through a US blockade on vessels calling at Iranian ports.

2 days ago
Markets

Asian stocks rally, crude drops on lingering hope for a peace deal

Stocks rose and oil fell Tuesday on hopes for a deal to end the Middle East war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, with Donald Trump saying Tehran had called to seek an agreement even as a US naval blockade around Iran's ports began. ...

4 days ago
Markets

Oil surges, stocks fall as Trump says to blockade Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices surged and stocks sank Monday after US-Iran peace talks fell apart and Donald Trump announced a blockade of the strategic Strait of Hormuz, adding to fears for energy supplies from the Middle East. ...

4 days ago

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FFB prices remain stubbornly low amid policy flip-flop

End to "flush-out" tariff policy does not mean instant increase in domestic CPO and FFB prices, says farmers association.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian stocks slide with oil on recession jitters; dollar drops

Asia stocks continued a decline from Wall Street on Tuesday, and US long-term Treasury yields sank to a four-month low, pulling the US dollar down against the yen and other currencies as investors worried about the risk of global recession.

3 years ago
Markets

Asia shares off to sluggish start, China PMI data soft

Asian share markets got off to a slow start on Monday as disappointing Chinese economic data fed doubts last week's rally on Wall Street could be sustained in the face of determined policy tightening by global central banks.

3 years ago
Markets

Stocks shrug off Wall St rally as focus shifts to China worries

Asian stocks were mixed on Friday as fresh concerns about Chinese growth trumped any fillip regional markets received from brisk Wall Street earnings and some tempering of more aggressive expectations about US interest rate hikes.

3 years ago
Markets

No slowdown yet: US import deluge tests supply chain

Last week, the Port of New York and New Jersey reported that its June 2022 volumes were the second-highest in history, capping a torrid semester that has overtaken the first half of the record-setting 2021 year by 11.4 percent.

3 years ago
Markets

Asia shares, bonds find some relief in Fed messaging

Asian shares made cautious gains on Thursday as investors scented a possible slowdown in the pace of US rate hikes, lowering bond yields and restraining the dollar.

3 years ago
Markets

Fed poised to attack inflation with another interest rate hike

The Federal Reserve is set to announce another big interest rate increase on Wednesday, the fourth this year, in its ongoing battle to tamp down price pressures that have been squeezing American families.

3 years ago
Markets

Palm oil prices to fall more due to distress selling by Indonesia

Palm oil prices will weaken further in the short term due to softer demand and "distress selling" by top producer Indonesia, commodities consultancy LMC International forecast on Tuesday.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Indonesia still 'attractive' for IPOs, rights issues

Businesses in many parts of the world have become reluctant to raise funds amid aggressive interest rate hikes led by the US Federal Reserve, but analysts say Indonesian companies benefit from a relatively supportive equity capital market.

3 years ago
Markets

Global growth fears, Fed keep dollar propped up

The dollar wobbled around just below multi-decade peaks on Tuesday, as traders waited on a rate hike from the US Federal Reserve and for any clues about whether hints of a slowing economy will prompt a shift away from its focus on inflation.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian stocks set for best week in two months; dollar heavy

Asian stock markets were on course for their best week in months and the dollar held off recent record highs after the European Central Bank (ECB) raised rates for the first time in more than a decade and bets on the size of US rate hikes eased.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian markets fail to extend rally, focus turns to Europe

Asian investors on Thursday struggled to maintain momentum from the previous day's equity rally and keep up with another Wall Street advance as growth fears continue to haunt trading floors and sap risk sentiment.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian shares extend a global rally as dollar languishes

Asian shares extended a global rally on Wednesday as strong US corporate earnings and the expected resumption of Russian gas supply to Europe helped lift sentiment and ease fears of a recession, while the dollar was mired near two-week lows.

3 years ago
Markets

Euro rallies after report that bigger ECB rate hike is on the cards

The euro rallied on Tuesday after a Reuters story that European Central Bank policymakers will discuss whether to raise interest rates by 25 or 50 points at their meeting on Thursday to tame record-high inflation.

3 years ago
Markets

Indian rupee breaches 80 per dollar, hits new record low

The rupee 80.0600 against the greenback soon after trading started, Bloomberg data showed.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian shares drift lower in choppy markets

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan, fell 0.46%, walking back some of the previous day's 1.8% gain, and heading back towards last week's two-year low. 

3 years ago
Markets

Asian markets drop as Apple report fans economic worries

Most stocks fell Tuesday after a Wall Street sell-off fueled by fresh recession worries following a report that Apple planned to ease back on spending due to uncertainty over the economic outlook.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Indonesia creates funding platform to finance coal retirement, renewable energy projects

Indonesia is estimated to require a total of US$4.3 billion to retire 9.2 GW of coal plants by 2030.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Asia shares bounce, euro on edge for ECB and gas test

It is shaping up to be a fraught week for Europe as it waits anxiously to see if Russia resumes the flow of gas through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline on July 21, while Italy teeters on the brink of political turmoil should Prime Minister Mario Draghi go ahead and resign. 

3 years ago
Markets

Indonesia removes palm oil export levy until Aug. 31

The decision by the world's biggest palm oil exporter could further depress prices FCPOc3, which have fallen by about 50 percent since late April to their lowest in over a year.

3 years ago
Markets

Asian stocks mixed as recession fears grow, China data falls well short

Below-par earnings from Wall Street titans JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley compounded worries that companies' bottom lines would be hit by the economic fallout from a series of issues including rising prices, monetary policy tightening and the war in Ukraine.

3 years ago
Markets

Stocks tumble while euro dips below $1.00 on US inflation data

Stock prices on Wall Street retreated after a sharp uptick in US inflation to 9.1 percent in June increased the risk of a possible recession. 

3 years ago
Markets premium

Asian stocks, crude bounce from losses but recession fears linger

The euro clawed its way back slightly after hitting parity with the dollar for the first time in two decades, though it remains under pressure from growing concerns about an energy crisis across the eurozone and the European Central Bank's slower pace of monetary tightening.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Pertamina raises non-subsidized Pertamax fuel prices

Indonesia has chosen to carefully adjust to the global trend of rising fuel prices as it shields its economy from uncontrolled inflation.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Euro teeters near parity vs dollar, hits new 20-year low

The dollar index, a measure against six counterparts, with the euro most heavily weighted, was 0.2 percent higher at 108.43. It had earlier climbed to 108.47, its highest since October 2002.

3 years ago
Markets

Indonesia may miss oil-lifting target in 2022: SKK Migas

Indonesia may miss this year’s oil-output target due to project delays, an official at the Upstream Oil and Gas Special Regulatory Taskforce (SKK Migas) said.

3 years ago
Markets premium

Wall Street ends lower ahead of economic data, earnings

Market leading growth stocks pulled all three major US stock indexes into negative territory, with risk-off sentiment exacerbated by Macau's first casino shutdown in over two years to curb the spread of COVID-19. 

3 years ago
Markets

European shares slide on energy supply crunch, COVID woes

Nord Stream I, the biggest single pipeline carrying Russian gas to Germany, starts annual maintenance on Monday. Flows are expected to stop for 10 days, but governments, markets and companies fear the shut-down might be extended due to war in Ukraine and could disrupt plans to fill storage for winter.  

3 years ago
Markets premium

Foxconn, Fosun interested in new capital project, govt claims

Two multinational companies have expressed interest in investing in the Nusantara capital city project, the government has said, after Japan's Softbank pulled out of the enterprise in March.

3 years ago
Markets

Asia shares open gingerly on US inflation, earnings season

An upbeat US June payrolls report already has the market wagering heavily on a hike of 75 basis points from the Federal Reserve this month, and sending bond yields higher. 

3 years ago
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