Euro zone consumer confidence rose 0.6 points month-on-month to -8.7 in April, beating market expectations, the European Commission said in its first estimate on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had expected an improvement to 9.0. For the whole of the 28-nation...

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, with both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq on track for a sixth straight day of gains as a number of bellwether companies reported strong results. Netflix Inc ( NFLX.O ) surged 7.1 percent to $373.13 a day after results showed strong subscriber...

Asian stock markets were subdued on Monday, as tensions in Ukraine kept investors cautious amid an absence of catalysts as several markets remained closed for the Easter holiday. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan inched down 0.1 percent. Japan's...

Damascus- Indo Asian News Service: Syria has raised the price of gasoline by 20 percent as part of government-guided austerity measures to cut costly subsidies, the fifth increase in three years. The Ministry of Trade and Consumer Protection announced Wednesday that the price of one...