Asian financial markets rallied on Wednesday, with Tokyo stocks rebounding 5.7 percent after a steep two-day sell-off on Japan's killer earthquake and unfolding nuclear crisis.
What's your true level of risk today? No idea. But the least your fund manager, advisor or favorite financial columnist can do today is remember the lesson of 2007, and highlight the range of risks and possible fall-out which might lie ahead. Take inflation, for instance. Though small, the risk of currency devaluation and hyper-inflation in the developed West is still materially underpriced by gold bullion
Report that a containment system at the bottom of Unit 2 reactor at Fukushima Daiichi has been breached saw uranium companies' shares to tank on the bourses.
The Internet had one overwhelming message for the world from Japan on Tuesday -- we're terrified of a nuclear meltdown and desperate to get out.
Though it will take weeks or longer to determine how much was actually lost in the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, investors sold insurance shares on Monday in fear of how high the total will go.
Besides aid from countries like China, US, Britain, relief pours in for Japan from big names of the tech and entertainment world including, Apple, Google, Lady Gaga and more.
Shares in Asian companies tumbled on Monday after the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan that likely killed more than 10,000 people.
Last week's earthquake in Japan could lead to insured losses of nearly $35 billion, risk modeling company AIR Worldwide said, making it one of the most expensive catastrophes in history -- even without expected additional tsunami losses that are not yet counted.
The unexpected nature of this week's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses from the disaster especially difficult, senior executives at two top catastrophe risk modeling firms said on Saturday.
The unexpected nature of this week's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses from the disaster especially difficult, senior executives at two top catastrophe risk modeling firms said on Saturday.
The unprecedented nature of Friday's earthquake in Japan, plus the damage from the subsequent tsunami and fires, makes estimating insured losses especially challenging, senior executives at two top catastrophe modeling firms said on Saturday.
As the Tsunami warnings being issued the preparation for Tsunami has become equally important. Here are few methods and sources to go about it.
A tsunami warning has been issued by NOAA's National Weather Service to the following countries with the estimated time of arrival at forecast points.
Officials at the Tsunami Warning Center in Alaska extended the Tsunami warning to the entire west coast of America and Canada.
While residents in Beijing have reported to have felt the tremors of the massive earthquake that hit Japan Pacific coast, top Chinese seismology expert is confident that the Chinese mainland is not in the danger zone.
The Bureau of Meteorology states that Australia is safe from the Tsunami threat that was issued by the US Tsunami monitoring center on Friday following the massive 8.9 magnitude earthquake in Japan.
Tsunami warnings have been issued in most of the 'Pacific Ring of Fire' countries on Friday after a powerful earthquake jolted Japan's Fukushima prefecture.
EU regulators are likely to take a long, hard look at Deutsche Boerse's planned takeover of NYSE Euronext, the EU's antitrust chief said, while a top NYSE executive said talks with authorities globally are so far going well.
One Australian dollar can get you about 1.37 New Zealand dollars right now. That’s an extreme low level for the New Zealand dollar, according to data compared by Westpac Global Strategy Group.
Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday they would raise fuel surcharges to offset higher oil prices, while Cathay Pacific <0293.HK> warned that growing energy costs could hurt its profits.
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