Indian stocks jump to record high
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Shares on India's main stock exchange shoot to a record high on signs that a dispute at leading conglomerate Reliance is coming to an end.
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Stocks rallied on Thursday, boosting the Dow to a record, as healthy sales from key retailers reassured investors about the economy, while takeover speculation drove Alcoa Inc.'s  shares to a lifetime high.
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MUMBAI/SAN FRANCISCO  - Oracle Corp.  boosted its offer for Indian banking software provider i-flex Solutions Ltd.  to $1.3 billion, driving up i-flex shares 17 percent to a record high.
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Japanese stocks rose to a seven-year high Monday, lifted by stronger-than-expected machinery orders. The Nikkei 225 index climbed 121.04 points, or 0.67 percent, on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, to 18,261.98 points, the index's highest close since May 2, 2000.
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Apple&#39;s stock soared to a record high Tuesday amid analyst reports that sales of highly profitable iPhones easily rocketed past 300,000 after its US launch.
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Asian stocks rose on Monday, with  China&#39;s market surging to an all-time high and South Korea also  hitting a record, as a rally in metals prices lifted miners and  a stronger dollar boosted shares in Japanese exporters.
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Dow closes at record high for second consecutive day as investor get ready for earnings season.
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Stocks rose Wednesday morning, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average within a whisper of its all-time closing high of January 2000.
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Global stocks hit record highs on Tuesday amid solid earnings and signs of consumer strength while the yen retreated from three-week highs, proving reluctant to break key resistance ahead of a weekend Group of Seven meeting.
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India&#39;s central bank unexpectedly raised a key interest rate for the first time in more than four years, saying record oil prices and rising corporate demand for credit threaten to fuel inflation.
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The euro hit a record high against   the yen on Thursday after soft Japanese industrial output data,   while Asian stocks were lifted by news that the U.S. economy   grew more than previously thought in the second quarter.
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European shares ended higher on Monday, buoyed by takeover activity as the London Stock Exchange hit a record high after Euronext made a bid approach, while drug makers recovered from a sharp fall.
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India's wholesale price inflation surged to a new 3-1/2-year high of 7.96 percent in the week ended August 7 due to higher energy and manufactured product prices, prompting the government to slash duties on steel.
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The S. & P. index set a five-year high and the Dow Jones industrial average climbed above 11,800 for the first time.
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India's rupee hits a five-year high after Standard & Poor's raises the country's foreign currency rating.
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India's Sensex stock index bursts through the 17,000 mark to reach a new record level.
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Shares on the key Bombay index rose nearly 1 percent and hit the 6,500-level for the first time on Friday, tracking a global holiday rally and on hopes of an early end to an ongoing ownership dispute in the Reliance group.