Dolar Australia Dekati Level US71c

Dolar Australia menguat seiring rebound komoditas dan pelemahan greenback. Pada pukul 07:00 (AEDT), unit lokal diperdagangkan pada level US70.78c, naik dari level US70.40c Kamis. Semalam, mata uang mencapai posisi tertinggi tiga minggu di level US 71,29 c. Penasihat Keuangan klien Senior OM Stuart Ive mengatakan rally tiga hari mata uang berlanjut seiring harga komoditas yang lebih tinggi menepikan risk-on appetite di pasar. Harga...

Pound Climbs as Accelerating Growth Counters ''Brexit'' Concern

The pound rose the most in seven weeks after a report showed the U.K.’s economic expansion accelerated in the fourth quarter. Sterling’s gain versus the dollar reversed a decline Wednesday which was the biggest in almost two weeks. Britain’s economy grew 0.5 percent in the final three months of 2015, compared with 0.4 percent in the third quarter, and matching the median forecast of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The pound still headed...

Europe Stocks Snap 2-Day Gain as Roche, H&M Earnings Disappoint

Worse-than-estimated earnings from companies including Roche Holding AG and Hennes & Mauritz AB dragged European stocks lower. Roche slid 3.8 percent, leading drugmakers lower. H&M dropped 4.8 percent after also warning a stronger dollar will continue to weigh on first-quarter profit. Stocks have moved more in step with with crude prices lately, and Europe’s benchmark deepened losses after energy shares pared some gains. The ...

U.S. Stocks Rebound as Oil Surges, Facebook Leads Rally in Tech

U.S. stocks rebounded from a selloff Wednesday as better-than-estimated results from Facebook Inc. boosted technology shares and crude oil rallied for a third day to lift energy producers. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 0.9 percent to 1,899.64 at 9:32 a.m. in New York, after sliding 1.1 percent yesterday, as the gauge alternated between daily gains and losses for a fifth session. Oil rose to a three-week high in...

Europe Stocks Halt 2-Day Gain; Deutsche Bank Falls After Results

European stocks were little changed, after rising four times in the past five sessions, as investors weighed earnings reports and gains in energy producers. Deutsche Bank AG slid 2.3 percent after posting its first annual loss since 2008. Hennes & Mauritz AB dropped 3.5 percent after its fourth-quarter earnings missed analysts’ estimates. Seadrill Ltd. and Subsea 7 SA climbed at least 4.7 percent, leading an advance in oil-and-gas...