Stocks

Bloomberg Hong Kong equity investors must be looking enviously across the border this year. The city’s two main benchmarks are hardly doing badly, but gauges on the mainland — after a grim 2018 — are eclipsing them and just about every other worldwide. The ChiNext in Shenzhen has led the charge with a 35 percent rally. While onshore shares slid …

Bloomberg India’s stocks advanced with the benchmark equity index rising to its highest level in six months, led by financial services companies. The S&P BSE Sensex climbed for a third session, increasing 0.6 percent to 37,752.17 in Mumbai, bringing its gain for this year to 4.7 percent. The NSE Nifty 50 Index increased 0.4 percent. Both indexes are headed for …

Bloomberg The rally in US technology stocks continued, with Apple and Visa leading the pack as investors grew confident the Federal Reserve won’t rush to raise rates. Boeing and Brexit otherwise dominated headlines, as the planemaker’s woes deepened and the pound fell before a key vote. The Nasdaq 100 took its two-day advance towards 3 percent after wobbling earlier in …

Bloomberg India’s benchmark equity index extended gains with the highest close in more than five months after two opinion polls showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition would be close to getting the seats needed to form a government, when election results are announced in May. The S&P BSE Sensex climbed 1.3 percent to 37,535.66 at the 3:30 p.m. close …

Bloomberg US stocks bounced back from the worst week of the year, as the latest retail-sales data boosted confidence that the economy isn’t headed for a downturn. Treasuries slipped and the dollar held steady. The S&P 500 rose for the first time in six days, while the Nasdaq 100 jumped after Nvidia agreed to a deal and Apple was upgraded. …

Bloomberg Indian stocks rose, with the benchmark equity index climbing to a more than five-month high, after the election commission set a date range for national polls, and said the result will be unveiled on May 23. The S&P BSE Sensex advanced 1 percent to 37,054.10, its highest close since September 19. The gauge rose 1.7 percent last week for …

Bloomberg A $10 trillion global stock rally is showing signs of fragility, and you can blame the economy. Both the American and European benchmarks posted their biggest weekly losses since the darkest days of December’s sell-off, with the S&P 500 dropping 2.2 percent. While the week ended with the European Central Bank’s (ECB) dovish turn and President Donald Trump predicting a …

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was half right about what it expected to happen with a more dovish-sounding Federal Reserve. But that didn’t save its US dollar trade — so it’s trying a different tactic. The firm’s recent recommendation to short the US Dollar Index (DXY) hit its stop — the level at which a trade is halted so losses …

Bloomberg US stocks edged lower as investors struggled to find inspiration after a torrid start to the year. The dollar rallied for a fifth day. The S&P 500 Index fell 0.1 percent. Equities opened lower amid a lack of progress on the US-China trade deal before briefly erasing losses on home-sales and service-industries data that beat estimates. General Electric Co. …

Bloomberg European stocks may be off to a roaring start this year, but exchange-traded funds (ETFs) tracking them aren’t immune to the outflows that hit US equity funds earlier in the quarter. Despite an 11 percent surge for the Stoxx Europe 600 Index, ETFs targeting region’s shares have bled more than $4 billion in 2019. Among the biggest losers: benchmark …