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Bloomberg Stocks rise with US equity futures on Wednesday as concerns over valuations eased and the focus turned back to the stimulus-fuelled recovery from the pandemic. Treasury yields edged higher. The Stoxx 600 Index climbed for a third straight session, with UK shares outperforming after UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak extended furlough pay for workers ahead of presenting ...

Bloomberg China’s defense and technology sectors may offer investor opportunities as the nation’s top political meeting starts this week, which could help inject fresh impetus into the country’s equities. Measures to help achieve President Xi Jinping’s pledge of a carbon neutral economy by 2060 could be released at the meeting which begins on Friday, according to brokerages including Guotai Junan ...

Bloomberg When faced with a spike in Treasury yields and a tech sector pullback that erased $1 trillion from stock prices, exchange-traded fund (ETF) investors decided to pour more money into equities. Despite the recent turmoil in the bond market, the S&P 500 Index extended a rally from its March 2020 lows to more than 70% and ETFs tracking stocks ...

Bloomberg Most Asian stocks slipped on Tuesday along with US and European equity futures as investors weighed the impact of the recent climb in bond yields and a Chinese official’s warning about asset bubbles. The dollar rises. Shares in China and Hong Kong led the regional decline. S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures turned lower. China is “very worried” about ...

Bloomberg Japan’s central bank joined the ranks of equities with puzzling surges in valuation led by retail investors on Monday, as its shares surged by their daily limit. The stock rises 18%, the most since 2005, to 33,000 yen a share. Even experienced investors are often surprised to learn that as well as being Japan’s lender of last resort and ...

Bloomberg US equity futures and global stocks rallied, while Treasuries stabilised in a sign of confidence after last week’s bond market turmoil. S&P 500 futures jumped and European stocks notched broad-based gains. Benchmark Treasury yields fluctuated around 1.40%, while Australia’s 10-year yield slid the most in a year after the central bank doubled down on bond purchases to pacify fixed-income ...

Bloomberg Investors will soon discover if Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index will undertake one of the biggest overhauls in its 51-year history, a move that would impact tens of billions of dollars in funds tracking the stock benchmark. On Monday, Hang Seng Indexes Co. will offer its conclusion after an industry consultation over proposed measures to the city’s stock benchmark, ...

Bloomberg US regulators are engaging in the stock market’s version of whack-a-mole — racing to suspend shares of companies with dubious prospects that have been hyped to the moon on social media. In a statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it temporarily halted trading in 15 companies due to concerns that their stock prices were artificially inflated. One ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong unveiled its first stamp-duty increase on stock trades since 1993, sparking a broad selloff in the $7.6 trillion market and sending shares of the city’s exchange to their biggest plunge in more than five years. The planned trading-tax increase to 0.13% from 0.10% was part of a raft of new measures announced in Hong Kong’s budget that ...

Bloomberg The National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. (NSE) shut trading in its cash and derivative segments earlier on Wednesday, citing “issues” with telecom links of its two service providers, which it said impacted the system and stopped prices from updating. “We are working on restoring the systems as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for NSE, the world’s biggest derivatives ...