Wall Street was mixed after a report showed more jobless benefits were filed than expected.

Investors edged back to safer bets from more speculative ones overnight.

Billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn said he has sold his Apple stake.

Seth Glickenhaus, a bond trader turned money manager whose studies of law and medicine failed to lure him away from Wall Street, his professional home for more than eight decades, has died.

Wall Street gained overnight, bolstered by better-than-expected results from JPMorgan Chase, while trade data from China fuelled commodities.

US Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is set to speak tomorrow, offering a key focus for investors before the government's jobs data are due at the end of the week.

Equities on both sides of the Atlantic moved lower before the Easter long weekend.

Wall Street gained overnight, after the US Federal Reserve flagged that there are fewer interest rate increases ahead this year than previously thought.

Equities on both sides of the Atlantic moved lower after trade data renewed concerns about China's economy.

US Treasuries and Wall Street fell after a report showed American employers added more jobs than expected last month.

The latest data on US manufacturing, construction spending and car sales bolstered optimism about the outlook.

Both Brent and US crude dove and then recovered overnight, and equities sought direction.

The Dow Jones, Nasdaq and S&P 500 Index all gained overnight.

One of the world's biggest investment businesses plans to buy five big retirement villages.

Global stocks pushed into full-blown bear market territory, with the MSCI All-Country World Index falling 1.3 per cent overnight.

Wall St stocks and oil have slumped again amidst growing talk of recession risk for both the US and the world, writes Liam Dann.