Market liquidity tends to spike when options and futures on indexes and stocks expire, spurring trading volume as large derivative positions roll over.
Police fired tear gas at protestors demonstrating near the Hong Kong government headquarters on August 31, 2019
The 140 million-euro mission will study the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, ecosystem and natural processes
Is Night Mode on the iPhone 11 Pro really that good? A professional travel photographer believes it to be so.
James Bullard, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, voted for a bigger interest rate on September 18 cut to "provide insurance" against a slowing economy
The Fed lowered its target interest rate by a quarter point on Sept. 18, the second such cut since July – and the first reductions since the Great Recession more than 10 years ago.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has unveiled a series of measures aimed at kickstarting the Indian economy, which has been slowing for five consecutive quarters
Mitsubishi began probing the trader's work in August after a drop in oil prices in July
FedEx, an American multinational courier delivery services company headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee has announced that one of their pilots, a former US Air Force Pilot named Todd Hohn, was arrested and later released on bail in China. The arrest happened about a week ago in the company’s Asia hub in Guangzhou after the pilot had made a round of deliveries and was waiting for a commercial flight.
This year India lost its status as the fastest-growing major economy to China
Officials are searching for ways to improve on some gloomy August economic numbers that showed retail sales at about 7.5 percent growth instead of the expected 7.9 percent.
Pork prices have jumped 50 percent over the past year in China and the UN says almost five million pigs have died or been culled in Asia because of swine fever
Christine Lagarde is expected to take over leadership of the European Central bank and calls for policymakers to address manmade threats to global growth
A virtual reconstruction of a Denisovan mandible found in Tibet
Rising tensions in the Middle East helped push oil prices higher
People walk near heavily damaged buildings in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria on September 16, 2019
FedEx is facing multiple investigations in China, where it has come under fire for delivery issues related to Chinese telecoms giant Huawei
People walk near heavily damaged buildings in the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria on September 16, 2019
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's father and predecessor is said to have been born in a simple wooden hut on the slopes of a sacred mountain, and guide Kim Un Sim has no doubts: "Welcome to our holy land."The North is avowedly atheist, with its own Juche ideology proclaiming that "Man is the master of all things", but quasi-religious terminology abounds at Mount Paektu, a dormant volcano straddling the border with China.
A Bank of England survey found that nearly two-thirds of 400 companies believe they are as ready as they can be for a no-deal Brexit
OECD growth forecasts in selected countries
The fast-food chain made yet another investment in artificial intelligence, its third tech acquisition this year.
