Stocks

Bloomberg US equity futures and global stocks pushed higher on Monday after President Donald Trump signed a coronavirus stimulus package. S&P 500 contracts climbed after Trump backed down from last-minute demands and approved the combined $2.3 trillion Covid-19 relief and government funding package. Germany’s DAX Index climbed to a record and the MSCI Asia Pacific Index was up 0.4%. The …

Bloomberg India stocks rise as inflows from foreign investors headed for a record quarter. The S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.8% to 47,353.75 in Mumbai. The NSE Nifty 50 Index advanced 0.9%. Both gauges closed at fresh all-time highs. Indian equities have surged as part of a global shift by investors into emerging markets as countries begin rolling out vaccines. The …

Bloomberg South Africa’s main equities index fall, led by Naspers Ltd and its Prosus NV unit after Hong Kong-listed Tencent Holdings slumped amid a widening Chinese antitrust probe of the technology sector. With a stake of about 31%, Prosus is Tencent’s largest shareholder. The benchmark FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index falls 0.8% to 58,721 in Johannesburg, with cyclical sectors including …

Bloomberg This has been a year like no other. Hammered by an unprecedented health crisis, global stocks tumbled into a bear market at record speed, and then rallied to new highs thanks to a flood of central bank money. Bond yields tanked to uncharted lows and the world’s reserve currency surged to all-time highs, only to then retreat to its …

Bloomberg Vaccine developers, electric-vehicle startups and a bankrupt car-rental company captured the imagination of individual investors in 2020 as Reddit chat rooms touted the so-called meme stocks as the next big winners. The wild swings reflected bets by individuals, many of them new to the market, who looked to brokerage apps like Robinhood Markets to pass the time during the …

Bloomberg Indian debt and rupee may lure overseas investors in 2021, just like the nation’s equities with one caveat: the central bank will face more challenges in curbing the local currency’s gains against the greenback. Stocks have already attracted the biggest yearly inflows since 2012, adding to the woes for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that has been buying …

Bloomberg European stocks rise after trade and transport links between the UK and its neighbours looked set to resume and Brexit negotiators made a final push for a deal. The Stoxx 600 Index rises as France agreed to end a suspension that crippled Britain’s busiest port after a new virus variant sparked more severe lockdowns. The pound advanced as the …

Bloomberg In a year that saw a pandemic upend financial markets and economies around the globe, US companies and their largest shareholders raised a record $435 billion with stock sales. That’s far above the previous high of $279 billion set in 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The windfall shows how issuers have dramatically turned to capital markets amid …

Bloomberg Stocks rebounded in Europe after their biggest drop in almost two months as Brexit talks continued and the US Senate passed a spending bill. The Stoxx 600 Index was 0.6% higher at the open as cyclicals staged a comeback following an outbreak of a new variant of the virus and a slew of lockdowns and travel curbs to contain …

Bloomberg European stocks tumbled as a new strain of the coronavirus in the UK caused chaos ahead of the Christmas holiday, with regional neighbours suspending travel with the nation following another missed deadline in Brexit talks. Travel and energy shares dragged the Stoxx Europe 600 Index down around 2% at the open as Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and France closed …