MARKETS

Customers in the world's biggest gold market are taking advantage of the current dip in prices to make purchases ahead of the wedding season.

The US has reclaimed the title as the most favoured location for FDI after a 12 years.

MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Trading Signals is a social trading service, which is already popular among thousands of investors and active traders.

Barclays, Citigroup, CLSA, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley welcome Infosys' co-founder's return.

Investors tracking purchasing managers index data from UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Hungary, Norway and Czech Republic.

Water companies like Hyflux and United Envirotech attracting investments from foreign players.

Nikkei and S&P/ASX fall while Shanghai composite and Hang Seng up.

Murthy takes his son, Rohan Murthy, as executive assistant for five-year period.

World Economics' World Price Index claims the purchasing power of the euro can vary from country to country.

String of economic data and decisions to provide pointers to markets in coming week.

Official PMI shows reading of 50.8 for May, slightly up from 50.6 in previous month.

Mining sector, with bans in some states, proves a drag on growth.

Apple raises prices of iPads and iPods in Japan following yen fall.

Market men continue to look for cues from the Fed on asset purchases.

Qianhai Equity Exchange opens with more than 1,200 companies in its fold.

Core consumer prices declined 0.4% in April from a year earlier, while industrial output rose 1.7%.

B&Q's sales in the UK & Ireland dropped 5.7% to £913m.

Fed plan to prune global asset purchases weighs on markets as investors resort to selling.

Shuanghui will pay $4.7bn in cash for Smithfield Foods, the largest takeover of a US company by China.

Fed fears force Dow and S&P 500 to shed 0.7%, while Nasdaq Composite falls 0.61%.

Industrial output rose 0.8% in April from March, less than economists' expectations of 1.0%.

The number of jobless Germans rises above estimates to 2.96 million in May.

An interest-rate cut could be the need of the hour to fill a 'physical' and an 'economic' hole that emerges owing to slowing mining activity and investments.

German monthly and yearly consumer price index data is expected during the day.

The IMF joins a number of private investment banks to cut China's growth outlook.

A stronger real estate market in the US could fuel the Federal Reserve's plans to roll-back its asset buys.

At least 14 member countries including Germany, Britain and the Netherlands oppose the plan.

European markets advance for a second Day as the FTSE Reopens with 1% gain

Nikkei gains in early trade supported by exporters' stocks.