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Japan#39;s Nikkei 225 slid 0.05 percent after surging close to 2 percent on Tuesday.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 39.45 points, or 0.18 percent, to 22,370.8, clocking its sixth straight record close. The SP 500 gained 2.78 points, or 0.11 percent, to 2,506.65, hitting its fifth record closing high in the last six sessions.

Nifty Bank index closed flat. Auto and FMCG indices gained 0.2-0.6 percent but Metal, Pharma and PSU Bank fell 0.5-0.8 percent.

Gold was steady on Wednesday, with investors in wait-and-see mode ahead of the outcome of a two-day Federal Reserve meeting in the United States. FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold XAU= was flat at $1,310.93 an ounce at 0039 GMT. * U.S. gold futures GCcv1 for December ...

The Nifty today retreated from record levels to close marginally down at 10,147.55 points due to losses in banking, financial, energy and capital goods stocks amid a weak global trend ahead of US Federal Reserve meeting. The 30-share flagship index cut short ...

Rebel Congress leader and former Gujarat chief minister Shankarsinh Vaghela on Tuesday announced support to a newly-formed political front in the state 'Jan Vikalp Morcha' for the forthcoming Assembly polls in the state. Vaghela, who had in late 1990s through ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Record-high world stocks paused on Tuesday and the dollar dipped, as investors waited for signals from the Federal Reserve on when it will start shrinking its balance sheet and nudge up U.S. interest rates again.

REUTERS - Gold inched up from its lowest in over two weeks on Tuesday as the dollar shed some gains, while the market's focus turned to a two-day Federal Reserve meeting that kicks off later in the day.

A day after the Tamil Nadu assembly speaker disqualified 18 MLAs from the AIADMK's V K Sasikala-T T V Dinakaran faction, Rediff.com's A Ganesh Nadar spoke to a couple of MLAs. IMAGE: AIADMK MLAs from the T T V Dinakaran group at the memorial for the late Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa at Marina beach, Chennai, on the night of August 21, 2017. Photograph: PTI Photo The 18 All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam legislators who were disqualified by Tamil Nadu assembly Speaker P ...