By Mike Dolan LONDON () -Stock market peaks typically coincide with troughs in cash holdings - but a regional skew to that picture may be messing with the signal for anyone still wary of U.S. equities. The overwhelming, almost unnerving, bullishness about Wall Street stocks for 2025 is now pretty clear. Not one of 16

() -Italian banks have started to disclose the minimum best-quality capital requirements for 2025 set by the European Central Bank under its Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). The SREP process provides an overall assessment of the challenges that significant lenders face, resulting in solvency requirements and other supervisory measures they are expected to comply

By Nell Mackenzie, Carolina Mandl and Summer Zhen LONDON () - Next (LON:) year's top pick for hedge fund strategies is so-called macro, with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump centre-stage as investors bet on how global policy decisions will impact economic conditions and play out in financial markets. Hedge fund returns benefited this year from wild

By Divya Chowdhury and Francesco Canepa MUMBAI () -A weaker euro falling to parity with the dollar would cushion the impact of any new U.S. tariffs on euro zone growth although it would push up inflation, European Central Bank policymaker Pierre Wunsch told on Wednesday. The Belgian central bank governor said in an interview with

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By Yoruk Bahceli LONDON () - With a war raging at the European Union's eastern border, Russia posing a threat, and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump pressuring allies to do more, the bloc urgently needs a viable plan to secure hundreds of billions of euros to bolster its defences. But while there is broad agreement Europe

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON () - The Federal Reserve is expected to lower borrowing costs on Wednesday in what some observers are calling a "hawkish cut" set to be delivered alongside policymakers' updated interest rate outlooks and economic forecasts covering the first months of the incoming Trump administration. The anticipated quarter-percentage-point move would lower the

By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE () -Shares of Kioxia rose 6% in their market debut on Wednesday, valuing the Bain-backed chipmaker at more than 820 billion yen ($5.34 billion) and highlighting steady investor demand for the third biggest IPO in Japan this year. Kioxia, a major manufacturer of memory chips, raised 120 billion yen after pricing

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO () -Japan's exports rose faster than expected in November, data showed on Wednesday, helped by a weaker yen and solid global demand although businesses worry protectionist U.S. trade policies will undermine future growth. Total (EPA:) exports rose 3.8% year-on-year in November, more than a median market forecast for a 2.8% increase

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL () - South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said on Wednesday that President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived bid to impose martial law had created some limitations communicating with the team of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and undercut both sides' political momentum. At a rare joint news conference for foreign media, Cho