The Trading Room

Asia-Pacific markets declined on Friday as investors assess risks associated with the new omicron Covid variant and look ahead to key inflation data in the U.S. Japan’s Nikkei 225 extended losses from the previous session...

A stronger dollar, rising ahead of U.S. inflation data due later on Friday, also weighed on fuel prices. Oil typically falls when the dollar firms as it makes oil more expensive for those holding other...

In consumer staples on wall street, heavyweight electric car maker Tesla Inc was the biggest percentage decliner, falling 6%.

The derivatives market of the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) was muted with no contracts trading during today's trading session.

Questions had swirled over whether Evergrande & Kaisa were simply too big to be allowed to fail, given its collapse could send shock waves through the wider Chinese economy.