4+ hour, 16+ min ago Lloyds Banking Group plc (LSE: LLOY; NYSE ADR: LYG) heads into the final stretch of 2025 with its share price hovering just shy of the psychologically loud "1 level'an eye-catching milestone for a UK retail banking heavyweight that spent years stuck in…...

7+ hour, 35+ min ago LONDON (21 December 2025) " The Bank of England has cut the UK base rate (Bank Rate) by a quarter-point to 3.75%, taking it below 4% for the first time in almost three years and setting up a pivotal start to 2026 for mortgages, savings and…...

7+ hour, 51+ min ago Below is what matters for Australia's share market today, based on the latest market data, fresh analysis, and the key news shaping positioning into the final full trading week of 2025. Because it's the weekend, the most relevant "today" read is…...

19+ hour, 16+ min ago That near-term "pause" masks a bigger story: gold is being pulled between a firmer U.S. dollar and higher yields on one side, and rate-cut expectations, central-bank demand, and persistent geopolitical uncertainty on the other'an unusually supportive mix that has kept pullbacks…...

22+ hour, 9+ min ago The most consequential ASX development in the past week wasn't a rally or a sell-off. It was ASIC's "transformational package" response to an Inquiry interim report into the ASX Group'an inquiry launched after "repeated and serious failures" and ongoing concerns…...

22+ hour, 27+ min ago TORONTO " The Toronto Stock Exchange is heading into the final stretch of 2025 with momentum that's hard to ignore"and harder to neatly explain with "Canada's economy is gloomy" headlines alone. On the last trading day before this weekend, the S…...

23+ hour, 24+ min ago The FTSE 100 ended Friday at 9,897.42 (+0.61%), with 1.61 billion shares traded, leaving the benchmark just below its recent highs (52-week range: 7,544.839,930.09). [3] On a weekly basis, Reuters reported the FTSE 100 delivered its strongest weekly gain since mid-October, rising 2.6% over the week. That move…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago London's stock market is closed today (Saturday, 20 December 2025), but investors are heading into the final pre-Christmas trading week with plenty to digest: a Bank of England rate cut, a data-heavy UK week that delivered fresh warnings from retail surveys, and…...

2+ day, 27+ min ago Tokyo's long era of "meaningful" interest rates moved another step closer to reality on Friday, Dec. 19, 2025, when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) lifted its key short-term policy rate to around 0.75%a level Japan hasn't seen in roughly three decades. The…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago Silver price today is holding close to historic highs, extending a year of unusually strong momentum for the "white metal" as investors weigh a cooler U.S. inflation read against a rebounding U.S. dollar. In early trade on Friday, December 19, spot silver was…...