January 15, 2025 – Best Day Investing – Investing and Stock News

Biggest IKEA retailer to invest $1 billion in recycling firms

By Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) – The investment arm of Ingka Group, the biggest global IKEA retailer, said it will invest 1 billion euros ($1.03 billion) into recycling companies as…

January 15, 2025

Stock

Japan stocks higher at close of trade; Nikkei 225 up 0.09%

Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Transportation Equipment, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Insurance sectors led shares higher. At the close…

January 15, 2025

Stock

Taiwan says exclusion from new US curbs on AI tech should ‘give confidence’

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s exclusion from the new U.S. curbs on artificial intelligence (AI) chip and technology exports should “give confidence” about Taipei’s own controls and respect for the law,…

January 15, 2025

Stock

Explainer-China’s RedNote: what you need to know about the app TikTok users are flocking to

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese social media app RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a…

January 15, 2025

Stock

TikTok prepares for immediate US shut-off on Sunday – The Information

Investing.com– TikTok, the widely popular short-video platform, is bracing for a potential shutdown in the United States as early as this Sunday, The Information reported on Wednesday citing sources familiar…

January 15, 2025

Economy

UK inflation falls to 2.5%, core price measures slow by more

LONDON (Reuters) -British inflation unexpectedly slowed to an annual rate of 2.5% in December from 2.6% in November and core measures of inflation watched closely by the Bank of England…

January 15, 2025

Economy

Column-Restive bonds still have a balance sheet backstop: Mike Dolan

By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) – There’s always the balance sheet. Battered bond markets are frantically repricing government borrowing costs to levels not seen for decades, raising fears that these…

January 15, 2025

Economy

Japan finance minister flags action against excessive foreign exchange movement

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday reiterated that the government would take appropriate action against excessive movement on the foreign exchange market, as the yen has seen…

January 15, 2025

Economy

Japan’s Makino Milling requests changes to unsolicited bid from Nidec

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese machine tool manufacturer Makino Milling Machine said on Wednesday that it asked Nidec to make changes to an unsolicited takeover bid announced last month. Makino said…

January 15, 2025

Economy

Morning bid: Inflation duo takes centre stage

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Bond investors may have drawn some comfort from the benign miss in U.S. producer price data…

January 15, 2025