Tech Selloff Hits Europe and Asia

Europe’s technology sector fell 1% Tuesday, bringing this year’s decline to 3.2%, while Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average ended down 0.5%—after earlier being down as much as 1.6%—with tech exporters including electronics company TDK and Fanuc, a maker of industrial robots, leading the declines.

Bouts of heightened global volatility contributed toward widening spreads and the worst opening quarter for European high-grade corporate issuance since 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. And given the greater uncertainty over conditions, it’s now a “window market” requiring more frequent …

If you heard a series of loud booms on March 22, they probably came from the exploding heads of many in the American and European political elite, following the appointment of John Bolton as White House national security adviser. With the ascension of this “hawk,” President Obama’s nuclear accord with …

Europe’s main markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt were all down more than 0.5 percent, after being closed on Monday when the pace of selling had … Donald Trump and as reports that Apple intended to make more of its own parts burnt Europeanchipmakers like ams AG and STMicroelectronics.

LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s manufacturing boom stumbled in March as optimism waned and demand ebbed owing to a powerful winter storm, surveys … In Britain, deep in negotiations to leave the European Union, manufacturing growth cooled to a year low in the first quarter of 2018, but a survey there …

Europe’s permits surged to more than 29 euros a ton in 2006 and 2008, only to plunge more than 90 percent after the financial crisis hobbled industry and helped create a surplus of the pollution rights. That glut took policymakers years to mop up, culminating in an agreement that got final approval only last …

The Czech Republic is the European Union’s most stable economy, beating out even Germany in an Allianz SE ranking. The country topped the list with the bloc’s lowest unemployment, a balanced budget and a manageable debt load. Some of the wealthiest nations didn’t fare so well, with weak …

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index headed for its first decline in four days in the wake of U.S. losses, though futures for the S&P 500 indicated selling pressures are easing. Equity benchmarks in Asia pared some of their earlier declines, but most ended in the red. European bonds followed Treasuries lower.

ATHENS— Yanis Varoufakis is back to rescue Greece and rock the Europeanestablishment again. Or so he hopes. On Monday night the flamboyant former finance minister, who enraged European authorities at the height of Greece’s debt crisis in 2015, launched his new Greek political party at a theater …