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 ...
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Strategists from Goldman Sachs to UBS say buy dip in stocks
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 ...
Read More »Stock recovery in Europe led by tech; dollar drops
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 ...
Read More »Tokyo pushes to reform its $6.5trn stock market
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 ...
Read More »Asia stocks advance amid bond turmoil; dollar rises
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 ...
Read More »India’s benchmark yield jumps to two-year high
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 ...
Read More »Record SoftBank bond sale to test faith of retail investors
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 ...
Read More »US futures rise before jobs data; dollar falls
Bloomberg US equity-index futures rise and the dollar fell as risk-taking returned to markets at the end of a turbulent week, with investors weighing US employment gains against the Federal Reserve’s policy-tightening plans. March contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index advanced 0.2%, after falling as much as 0.6%. S&P 500 futures also climbed 0.2%. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index ...
Read More »Chinese hedge fund responds to investor ire after 34% loss
Bloomberg Chinese asset manager Loyal Valley Capital Co. responded to pushback from clients who lost a third of their money on a product last year, as the $11 billion manager became the latest target of investor ire. One of the firm’s hedge funds allegedly deviated from its theme of tech- and consumer-stocks, while repeated requests for dialogue with fund ...
Read More »US futures whipsaw amid Fed shock; yields advance
Bloomberg US equity-index futures witnessed volatile trading even as European stocks fall amid a spike in sovereign yields as investors digested the Federal Reserve’s indication of a more aggressive policy tightening. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index were down 0.4%, after a loss of as much as 0.9%. S&P 500 Index futures lost 0.2%, after a 0.5% drop ...
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