10:37 AM EDT, 03/27/2026 (MT Newswires) -- Asian equities traded in the US as American depositary receipts were tracking lower Friday morning, declining 0.63% to 2,564.18 on the S&P Asia 50 ADR Index, which is down 1% for the week so far. From North Asia, the gainers were led by fintech firm J and Friends ( JF ) and travel...

09:17 AM EDT, 03/27/2026 (MT Newswires) -- The broad market exchange-traded fund SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust ( SPY ) was down 0.4% and the actively traded Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) was 0.6% lower in Friday's premarket activity as investor concerns linger amid the ongoing Middle East conflict. US stock futures were also lower, with S&P 500 Index futures down...

* Trump extends deadline for striking Iran's energy plants to April 7 * Commerzbank raised its year-end gold price target to $5,000/oz * Gold set for weekly loss of 1.6% By Anushree Mukherjee March 27 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Friday on dip-buying but were still headed for a fourth straight weekly loss, with gains capped by rising expectations...

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - The first quarter of the year comes to an end next week after an extraordinary few months where the world's financial markets have been tossed around at the mercy of geopolitics, with the Iran war wiping $7 trillion off global stocks. Oil prices have seen their second-biggest quarterly rise of the century, Europe's gas prices...