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  Bloomberg Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc sold 128.5 billion yen ($1.13 billion) in bonds, taking advantage of Japan’s ultra-low borrowing costs. The US company priced a multi-part debt offering on Friday, marking its fourth bond deal in the Japanese currency in as many years. With a coupon of 0.203%, the US company priced its 5-year debt at a rate …

  Bloomberg European stocks slipped with US futures as investors digested the latest read on American inflation and assessed bets on timing for the first Federal Reserve rate increases in the pandemic era. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index traded slightly lower after two days of gains, with technology and miners offsetting declines in travel and leisure and consumer products. Contracts …

  Bloomberg The great sorting of electric-vehicle companies is under way in the stock market. Investors have embraced Tesla Inc and its meteoric rise as the biggest carmaker by market value, while Ford Motor Co has more than doubled in the past year on its EV plans. On the other hand, new entrants with little in the way of earnings, …

  Bloomberg A gauge of Chinese technology shares rallied by the most in three months as investors took advantage of attractive valuations in the battered sector and the prospect of looser monetary policy conditions. The Hang Seng Tech Index rose as much as 5% on Wednesday, headed for its highest level in a month with all but one of its …

  Bloomberg Unfazed by the stock market’s bumpy start to the year, strategists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc to UBS Global Wealth Management reiterated their bullish calls on bets that equities can weather higher interest rates and rising bond yields. “The selloff in some long duration high quality names might be overdone soon,” Goldman strategists led by Cecilia Mariotti wrote …

  Bloomberg European stocks bounced back from their biggest decline in six weeks as Treasury yields steadied a day before a key American inflation reading. Technology stocks led the advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index after the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 recovered following four negative sessions. US futures edged higher. Benchmark Treasury yields stabilised near 1.75% after reaching 1.8% in …

  Bloomberg Japan’s largest exchange operator disclosed the components of three new market sections on Tuesday, but the long-awaited shake-up of the country’s sluggish stock market is attracting more skepticism than excitement. Japan Exchange Group Inc said 1,841 constituents would make up the new “Prime” section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which will replace the current First Section of companies …

  Bloomberg Stocks in Asia nudged higher on Monday as investors brace for the bond-market volatility and stimulus withdrawal. The dollar rose. Shares in Hong Kong advanced as technology stocks rebounded. They fall in South Korea, while China edged higher. US futures inched upward after the S&P 500 posted the worst start to a year since 2016, as expectations of …

  Bloomberg India’s benchmark yield jumped to the highest in two years as demand for bonds at recent auctions dwindled amid concern over the central bank’s consistent sales of the nation’s debt in the secondary market. The 10-year bond yield rises five basis points to 6.59%, highest since January 2020. That’s after underwriters stepped in to buy nearly 44 billion …

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp plans to issue its biggest-ever yen bond in a test of whether individual investors will continue to lap up notes of one of the world’s most indebted firms. Billionaire Masayoshi Son’s technology conglomerate is marketing 550 billion yen ($4.8 billion) of seven-year subordinated notes, with the proceeds used to repay debt. The company has more …