07:00 AM EDT, 05/30/2024 (MT Newswires) -- US equity markets were pointing lower in Thursday's premarket activity, as investors await key economic data, including the second estimate of the first-quarter gross domestic product report at 8:30 am ET. Standard & Poor's 500 futures declined 0.4%, the Nasdaq decreased 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average was off 0.9% before the...

LONDON, May 30 (Reuters) - Sterling inched higher on Thursday after falling sharply the previous day as a jump in U.S. bond yields boosted the dollar. The pound was up 0.1% at $1.2709 on Thursday, after falling 0.5% on Wednesday to trade as low as $1.2681 overnight. Britain's currency was pulled down from a more-than-one-month high reached on Tuesday by...

By Sethuraman N R BENGALURU, May 30 (Reuters) - Indian shares fell for a fifth straight session on Thursday, pressured by weakness in global peers, while some investors trimmed positions ahead of federal election results. The NSE Nifty 50 closed down about 1% at 22,488 points, while the S&P BSE Sensex lost 0.9% to 73,885 points. The benchmark indexes saw...

06:33 AM EDT, 05/30/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Asian stock markets ended mostly lower Thursday as rising global interest rates and stubborn China property-market concerns undercut trader sentiments. Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo finished in the red, as did most other regional exchanges. In Japan, the Nikkei 225 opened lower and could not recover, finishing off 1.3% as traders noted higher...