* South Korea holds rates at 3.00% * Korean stocks at near 1-week high * Rupiah slips to 6-month low By Sneha Kumar and Sameer Manekar Jan 16 (Reuters) - The Indonesian rupiah hit a more than six-month low on Thursday while the South Korean won snapped a three-day winning streak after both countries' central banks shocked investors by eschewing...

(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.  At last, some breathing room for investors after U.S. and UK inflation figures on Wednesday eased the vice-like grip that the soaring dollar and global bond yields had increasingly been exerting over markets. It is too early to say this marks a turning point, but fixed income and emerging...

04:42 PM EST, 01/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Commercial crude stockpiles in the US posted a bigger draw than projected last week, government data showed Wednesday, while oil prices rallied as markets evaluated two other oil market reports. Inventories of crude, excluding the strategic petroleum reserve, declined by 2 million barrels to 412.7 million barrels through the week ended Friday, the...

Jan 16 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. At last, some breathing room for investors after U.S. and UK inflation figures on Wednesday eased the vice-like grip that the soaring dollar and global bond yields had increasingly been exerting over markets. It is too early to say this marks a turning point, but fixed income...