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Asian stocks dropped sharply at the open on Tuesday, following Wall Street lower as fears of a trade war between the United States and China battered market sentiment. Tokyo led the declines, with the benchmark Nikkei...

Tokyo stocks led Asian markets higher on Monday, shrugging off disappointing business confidence data to climb slightly higher in thin holiday trade. With no direction from Europe or Wall Street — both closed for Easter holidays...

Most Asian stocks extended their selling on Thursday as a volatile week draws to an early close in many markets while bubbling trade tensions and another painful day for Wall Street technology shares continued to feed...

Asian markets resumed their downward spiral on Wednesday following a sell-off on Wall Street, with technology firms tracking their US counterparts, while trade war fears continue to niggle at investor confidence. The volatility that has raked...

Asian markets extended last week’s worldwide plunge as investors fret that Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs on $60 billion of Chinese goods will spark a trade war that would hammer the global economy. The US move to...

Wall Street deepened its already sharp losses on Friday as fears of a global trade war ate even further into global equities. Meanwhile, the dollar fell and crude oil shot above $70 per barrel in New...

China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd saw its shares down 4.51 percent at the midday trading break on Friday after the internet firm’s largest shareholder, Naspers Ltd, said it would lower its stake for the first time in...

Asian markets plunged on Friday following a sell-off in New York as Donald Trump sparked fresh trade war fears by imposing huge tariffs on Chinese imports and Beijing unveiled countermeasures against US goods. The president announced...

Asian markets rallied on Wednesday, with energy firms boosted by a rush into oil after data indicated a jump in US demand and OPEC provided an optimistic outlook for supplies. The across-the-board gains come as investors...

Tokyo stocks hit by Abe worries, with most Asia markets down. Tokyo led losses across most Asian markets on Monday as Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s political future hangs in the balance over a cronyism scandal,...