Wall Street

Stock prices on Wall Street saw solid gains across the board.

China has been praised by the WHO for its transparent handling of the outbreak.

In Britain, Sajid Javid's resignation sent London's benchmark FTSE 100 index down.

Cautious comments on the fallout from the virus by US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell added to the sense of calm.

The Dow won solid gains and pulled to within 100 points of a record of its own.

Hong Kong struggled after last week's advances and was 0.90 percent lower, with Singapore, Wellington, Mumbai, Bangkok, Jakarta and Manila also in the red.

The US-China trade agreement lowers tensions between the two and provides a major boost to the global outlook.

Asia was given a firm lead from Wall Street, where all three main indexes ended higher.

All three main indexes on Wall Street ended in negative territory following the reading, with profit-taking also playing a role, having hit new record highs.

Wall Street's three main indexes racked up fresh records and Asia broadly followed suit, though the gains were light.

Traders were able to turn their attention back to the global economic outlook and the US-China trade deal signing planned for January 15.

The ceremony will take place at the White House.

Analysts have attributed the latest run of records to upbeat investor sentiment based on a lower risk of recession in the immediate future.

A report by Mastercard Spending Plus estimated that holiday shopping sales rose by a better-than-expected 3.4 percent this year.

The $15 billion IPO would be the biggest since insurance giant AIA garnered $20.5 billion in 2010.

Founder Richard Branson appeared on the floor of the NYSE to ring a bell marking the beginning of trading.

Several financial entities broke ties with Fisher Investments, which manages some $112 billion.

The new tariff will effectively tax all Chinese exports to the US, in addition to the 25% tariff imposed on $250 billion worth of goods last May.

Trump's trade war is inflicting an increasingly painful toll on the US economy and on Wall Street.

Tesla's stock continues to take a pounding in the absence of a clear growth plan from Elon Musk.

Investors fear a constellation of concerns from rising interest rates, intensifying tensions over trade, a slowdown in China and the prospect that U.S. corporate earnings growth will soon stall.

Losses on Wall Street rip through Asian financial markets amid fears about interest rates and trade tariffs.

Goldman Sachs said veteran investment-banker would succeed Lloyd Blankfein as chief executive Oct. 1.

Goldman earned $2.83 billion, or $6.95 a share, compared with $2.26 billion, or $5.15 a share, in the same period a year earlier.

JPMorgan Chase, the nation's largest bank by assets and deposits, had a profit of $8.71 billion

Drop fuelled by widespread fears the US Federal Reserve will raise interest rates faster than previously thought.

A 16-year-old is in custody after his parents, sister and a family friend were shot dead in the family's New Jersey home as the New Year approached.

At one stroke, there is a new asset class which is an easily divisible store of value – taking the crown from gold, and can be moved around at the click of a mouse.

Is bitcoin in a bubble? The price of bitcoin has been soaring this year, and last week alone it jumped from $11,000 to well over $17,000, according to Coindesk.

The first-ever bitcoin future jumped after it began trading on 10 December as the increasingly popular virtual currency made its debut on a major US exchange.