Major stock indexes ended mostly lower Wednesday as oil futures rose, even though the International Energy Agency decided to release a massive amount of strategic reserves to stabilize prices.

The session's defining paradox — the one that makes Wednesday analytically significant rather than just directionally negative — is that the IEA announced the largest emergency oil reserve release in ...

Indian stock markets sharply declined on Wednesday, with Sensex dropping over 1,400 points and Nifty 50 falling below the 23,900 mark. The decline came after the benchmark indices opened flat amid ...