Stocks crept higher on Thursday following their weakest quarter in a year, while higher Treasury yields supported the dollar, as investors parsed the details of a 2 trillion U.S. government spending plan and hoped for strong jobs data later in the week. MSCIs broadest index of AsiaPacific shares outside Japan rose 0.6 after a modest […]

The ECBs massive bondbuying programme has fuelled a bonanza in euro zone sovereign debt, with some investors vastly overstating their orders at debt sales in a bid to secure the coveted paper. But now some governments are starting to say, enough is enough. Borrowers including the European Union, France and Spain are moving to rein […]

SYDNEY, April 1 Reuters The Australian and New Zealand dollars were perilously close to major chart bulwarks on Thursday as the U.S. dollar continued its broad advance, though both currencies fared better against the lowyielding euro and yen. The Aussie eased to 0.7584, after failing to clear resistance at 0.7664. The focus was on the […]