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Asian stock markets traded mostly higher Friday, with Japanese blue chips swinging to gains in the afternoon session.The rise for the major markets came as Hong Kong and Seoul were closed for holidays, curbing trading volumes in bourses that were open.Japan's Nikkei Stock Average closed 0.7% higher, undoing losses from the morning session and erasing Thursday's 0.4% retreat, which had followed a major jump of 2.3% on Wednesday.Losses for Wall Street overnight had helped dampen sentiment earlier in the day, as the S&P 500 (SPX) finished down 0.5% after a Federal Reserve official tipped a pullback in the central bank's easing programs could come as soon as this summer.But offsetting the U.S. loss were domestic data showing Japan's core machinery orders -- seen as a leading indicator of capital investment -- jumped 14.2% in March, well above forecasts.Real-estate shares were a strong spot for the Tokyo market, as some major names rebounded from recent losses. Among them, Mitsui Fudosan Co...
Stock markets in China and Australia traded lower Friday to start the new month on a downbeat note after a pair of lackluster Chinese manufacturing surveys, but Japa...
Asian stock markets traded mostly lower Friday to start the new month on a broadly downbeat note, with a pair of lackluster manufacturing surveys from China doing li...
Asian stock markets slipped Friday to start the new month on a broadly downbeat note, with a pair of lackluster manufacturing surveys from China doing little to help...
Asian stock markets fell Friday to start the new month on a broadly downbeat note, though losses were modest.Japan's Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.4%, New Zealand's...
Japanese blue-chip stocks pulled back early Friday after sharp gains in the previous session, even as the broader market eked out a mild gain. The Nikkei Stock Avera...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) is nearing completion of a deal to import 800,000 tons of liquefied natural gas a year from the U.S. starting in 2017, a new sign ...
Japanese stocks started higher Monday, as the dollar reached its highest point against the yen since June 2010, but quickly slid back to the flat line, with negative...
Japanese stocks opened lower Wednesday after two losing sessions, as further gains for the yen hit exporters, and overnight losses in the U.S. weighed on the overall...
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (7011.TO) and French utility Areva SA are preparing to place a bid for an upcoming order to build a nuclear power plant in Turkey, a...
Japan's newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a strong supporter of atomic energy use in the past, should restart plants shut after the world's worst nuclear...
The operator of a Japanese nuclear power plant that blew up after a tsunami last year said on Friday its lack of safety and bad habits were behind the world's worst ...
Japanese stocks retreated Tuesday in choppy action, with utilities weaker and tech shares mixed, as the Nikkei Stock Average slipped 0.2% to 9,515.43 and the Topix a...
Japanese stocks extended their losses in early Friday action, with a weak overnight performance on the U.S. markets helping send the Nikkei Stock Average down 0.9% t...
Competition for a stake in an Australian wind farm is thinning, after a key shortlisted party pulled its interest.China Longyuan Power Group (0916.HK) won't submit a...
Tokyo Gas Co. (TKGSY, 9531.TO) signed a contract to buy a 25% stake in Quicksilver Resources Inc.'s (KWK) shale gas project in Texas for $485 million, the companies ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO) said Friday it won't be restarting the one nuclear power plant it has any chance of running any time soon after an expert advisory...
China Longyuan Power Group (0916.HK) and Thailand's Electricity Generating PCL (EGCO.TH) are among shortlisted parties vying to buy a stake in an Australian wind far...
Japanese stocks opened higher Tuesday, attempting a ninth straight session of gains, as a weaker yen boosted exporter shares and as banks followed their U.S. peers h...
Stocks in Shanghai and Hong Kong pulled back Friday as lackluster data on Chinese manufacturing prompted a retreat after a solid rally in the previous session, while...
