Global stocks and US bond yields dived on Thursday, while the dollar, gold and oil prices rocketed higher after Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a blistering warning against Ukraine and authorized special military operations in Ukraine’s Donbass region. Several explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, before dawn, after ...
Saudi shares slumped 6.8 percent as trading opened Sunday, a day after the finance minister announced “painful” measures to tackle the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. Almost all the listed stocks on the Arab world’s largest bourse were in the red just minutes after the start of trading. Finance ...