Pakistan captain Shan Masood rued his side letting Australia off the hook at key moments in the second test but was taking plenty of positives out of the 79-run defeat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.
(RTTNews) - European stocks edged higher on Friday and were set to post their best annual gain since 2021 on hopes that global central banks led by the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates next year.
Chinese and Hong Kong stocks ended 2023 as the world's worst-performing equity markets, with losses exceeding 10%, although they recorded their best week in five months.
Signa Development, a key division of European property company Signa, filed for insolvency on Friday in a Vienna court with debts of around 1.16 billion euros ($1.28 billion), the KSV creditor protection association said.
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) sold foreign currency worth 37.63 billion Swiss francs' ($44.73 billion) in the third quarter, the central bank said on Friday, as its recent efforts to boost the Swiss franc to curb imported inflation neared the end.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) sounded out Japan about holding an Esports Games in 2026, Kyodo news agency reported on Friday citing several sources.
(RTTNews) - Asian stocks ended mixed in muted trade on Friday, the last trading session of 2023. The dollar looked set to end 2023 with a loss, keeping gold prices on track for their best year in three.
WisdomTree, Inc. WT shares soared 6.4% in the last trading session to close at $7.13. The move was backed by solid volume with far more shares changing hands than in a normal session. This compares to the stock's 3.9% gain over th
Spain's 12-month inflation rate inched down to 3.1% in December as fuel prices decreased and food prices stabilised, from 3.2% in the period through November, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday.
There's not much time to get over the New Year's partying: the most closely watched U.S. economic release and key euro area inflation data are on the calendar in the week ahead, suggesting a busy start to 2024.
Kenya's economy grew 5.9% year-on-year in the third quarter of this year, compared to 4.3% growth in the same quarter of 2022, official data showed on Friday.
Chinese lawmakers on Friday weighed in on a fiery online debate on whether fireworks should be used to ring in the Lunar New Year in February, saying a total ban on pyrotechnics in the country credited with inventing them would be hard to implement.
The Russian rouble weakened against the U.S. dollar and euro on Friday, the last trading day of 2023, after it had sharply rose a day before, spurred by the central bank's announcement about volumes of foreign currency sales.
Turkey's central bank said on Friday it would maintain a reserve "build-up strategy" in 2024 in order continue an uptrend in its international foreign currency reserves, adding that a floating exchange rate regime would continue.
Japan's Nikkei share average closed 2023 with its best year in a decade on expectations of better governance, though ticking lower in the day's session amid a lack of any big triggers.