05:36 AM EST, 12/23/2024 (MT Newswires) -- Most Asian bourses bounced back in the green at Monday's close, buoyed by softer inflation data in the US. The core personal consumption inflation, the US Fed's preferred inflation gauge, rose 0.1% to 2.4% in November, its smallest monthly rise in six months. Tokyo and Hong Kong closed higher, while Shanghai remained in...

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Futures tracking Canada's main stock index were flat on Monday, as investors avoided placing big bets ahead of key domestic economic data due later in the day. The S&P/TSX index futures were up 0.01% at 06:13 a.m. ET (11:13 GMT). Early estimates of Canada's gross domestic product data for October show a 0.1% expansion on a...

(Reuters) - Volkswagen shares were down 3% in early trade on Monday with analysts citing uncertainty about the automaker's cost-cutting deal with unions and likely headwinds in 2025. Friday's agreement, hailed by unions as a Christmas miracle, calls for more than 35,000 future job cuts and a reduction of production by almost a quarter, but without immediate plant closures or...

(Recasts with updated prices, adds analyst comment and London dateline) By Polina Devitt LONDON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - Copper prices edged higher in London on Monday as they recovered to recent technical averages from last week's fall, although dwindling pre-Christmas liquidity kept them in a tight range. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) rose 0.4% to $8,977 per...