Feb 13 (Reuters) - Australian shares are expected to open slightly firmer on Tuesday, tracking a stronger finish on Wall Street which closed higher for a second straight day. The local share price index futures rose 24 points to 5765.0, a 55.7-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index close. The benchmark index fell 0.3 percent on Monday.New Zealand's benchmark S&P/NZX 50 index ro...Read More

By Nichola SaminatherTORONTO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index unofficially closed higher on Monday, rebounding from a five-month low as oil and metals prices rose. The Toronto Stock Exchange's S&P/TSX composite index ended the day up 206.87 points, or 1.4 percent, at 15,241.88. (Reporting By Nichola Saminather, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien) Disclaimer: The views expressed in this a...Read More

By Heather SomervilleSAN FRANCISCO, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Grocery delivery service Instacart has raised $200 million in fresh funding, the company said on Monday, boosting its valuation and providing new resources for the startup to compete against heavyweight Amazon.com Inc .Instacart, a San Francisco-based company that shops for and delivers groceries from about 200 retailers including Target Corp...Read More

SEOUL, Feb 13 (Reuters) - The following are foreign investors' holdings in local bonds and stocks for January, released by South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service on Tuesday (in trillion won):JanuaryDecemberBonds*100.998.5 Stocks*658.8 635.9*Foreign investors purchased a net 3.24 trillion won ($2.99 billion) of local stocks and a net 4.62 trillion won of local bonds in January.($1 = 1,083.0900...Read More

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Wall Street's three major indexes rebounded on Monday with broad-based gains across sectors as investors appeared to regain confidence after U.S. equities' biggest weekly drop in two years.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 409.47 points, or 1.69 percent, to 24,600.37, the S&P 500 gained 36.39 points, or 1.39 percent, to 2,655.94 and the Nasdaq Composite added 1...Read More

* U.S. 30-year touch 11-month peak* U.S. safe haven bids in Treasuries slow amid stock rally* Trump unveils new budget (Recasts first paragraph, adds comment, updates prices, table)By Gertrude Chavez-DreyfussNEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury yields rose on Monday, with benchmark 10-year yields hitting a four-year high and those on 30-year bonds climbing to an 11-month peak, as a stock ral...Read More

LUANDA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Angola's central bank said on Monday it was the sole responsibility of commercial banks to sell foreign currency to the public and that it would sell forex only to large importers of essential goods. The southern African nation in January abandoned the kwanza's peg to the U.S. dollar, devaluing it by about 10 percent, in a bid to attract capital to the oil-exporting coun...Read More

The 20 stocks listed in the table below have attracted the highest total options volume during the past 10 days. Stocks highlighted in yellow are new entries to the list, and data is courtesy of Schaeffer's Senior Quantitative Analyst Rocky White. Two names standing out in today's trading are e-commerce concern Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) and chip stock NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA...Read More

U.S. stocks arehigher today, with the Dow last seen up around over 480 points. Among the stocks making notable moves today are online mailing and shipping name Stamps.com Inc. (NASDAQ:STMP), drugmaker Collegium Pharmaceutical Inc (NASDAQ:COLL), and hardwood flooring retailer Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc (NYSE:LL). Here's a closer look at what's moving shares of STMP, COLL, and LL today.Amazon...Read More

(Updates prices, quotes)By Kate DuguidNEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The dollar fell against the euro on Monday following its best week against the single currency in nearly 15 months, as U.S. stocks recouped some losses from the dramatic selloff that saw the S&P 500's sharpest decline in more than two years. The selloff across asset classes forced investors betting against the U.S. currency to...Read More

Wishbone Gold PLC (LON:WSBN) shares jumped as it announced the first shipment of gold from Thailand through a recently formed entity.The first gold delivery was sent to Dubai last week by Asian Commerce and Commodities Trading Co Ltd, which was recently formed to expand Wishbone's presence in Asia.The entity is 51% owned by Wishbone's Thai local partner, who is connected to the ruling royal family...Read More

Macarthur Minerals Ltd (TSXV:MMS) (the "Company" or "Macarthur Minerals") will be applying to the TSX Venture Exchange for approval to extend the expiry date of 33,408,479 common share purchase warrants that were issued as part of a non-brokered private placement completed by the Company in July/August 2017.Read full newsRead More

* Dollar on track for weakest day since Feb. 1* Eyes on U.S. inflation data due Wednesday (Updates prices; adds comment, second byline, NEW YORK dateline)By Marcy Nicholson and Pratima DesaiNEW YORK/LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Gold prices rose on Monday as the dollar eased, but gains are expected to be muted ahead of inflation data from the United States later this week that could mean U.S. interes...Read More

Getty ImagesThe U.S. Treasury said the federal budget deficit was $49 billion in January. The numbers: The U.S. government had a monthly budget surplus of $49 billion in January, down slightly from the same month last year. For the fiscal year to date, the government's deficit is $176 billion, up from $159 billion in the year-ago period. What happened: Some of the big drivers of spending in Ja...Read More

China's Plunge Protection Team officially arrived over the weekend, urging controlling investors in listed companies to boost their holdings and telling some mutual funds to limit equity selling this week.Read full newsRead More

Retail investors just can't get enough of buying what institutions are selling to them...Read full newsRead More

London City Airport canceled all flights on Monday after the discovery nearby of another unexploded bomb dropped by Hitler's Luftwaffe...Read full newsRead More

MEXICO CITY, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Mexico's retail association said on Monday that sales at stores open for at least a year rose 3.9 percent in January from the same month a year earlier.The group, known as ANTAD, includes retail chains such as Wal-Mart de Mexico and Soriana .Total sales grew 7.3 percent compared with January 2017, the group said. (Reporting by Daina Beth Solomon) Disclaimer: The vi...Read More

The U.S. stock market is soaring today -- paring a portion of last week's losses after President Donald Trump unveiled a massive infrastructure plan. The financial sector is seeing some of the biggest gains, as evidenced by the price action in the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF (KRE) and the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF). Options traders are blasting the exchange-traded funds (ETFs), too,...Read More

NEW YORK, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department would sell about $290 billion in net ultra short-term debt in the next four weeks in the aftermath a budget agreement last week to suspended the federal debt limit into March 2019, JPMorgan analysts said on Monday.This increase in bill issuance would bring the government's cash balance toward $340 billion by the end of April after the Treas...Read More