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Stock rally faces hurdles in India

Bloomberg Another thousand-point milestone is within reach for India’s benchmark equity index. Following the drubbing earlier this year, the S&P BSE Sensex is nearing the 39,000 level, the gauge’s third round-number mark since surpassing its life-time peak two months ago — a rally that’s helped the gauge cement the tag of Asia’s best performer this year. While there’s optimism that ...

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US stocks keep playing havoc with predictions post vacation

Bloomberg OK, Wall Street, back to work. The stock market crash you feared while guiltily snoozing through August on the beach may not have materialised but there are a few things you need to know about. First the good news. While firms from Goldman Sachs to Voya Asset Management warned everyone in July about the risk of late-summer turbulence and ...

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Russia holds oil production near post-Soviet highs

Bloomberg Russia kept pumping oil near post-Soviet records last month as it reaped benefits from a deal with OPEC easing output caps and oil prices at an all-time high in rubles. The nation extracted an average of 11.21 million barrels of crude per day in August, according to data emailed by the Russian Energy Ministry’s CDU-TEK unit. Volumes were little ...

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Technology shares surge as US stocks pad records

Bloomberg US stocks plowed to new records, with technology shares pacing gains, as investors speculated the Trump administration will make progress on trade spats. The pound rallied after the European Union revived hopes of a Brexit deal before the UK exits the common area in March. The S&P 500 Index jumped past 2,900, a level it first breached on Tuesday, ...

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Chinese investors sell record Hong Kong stocks as Tencent stings

Bloomberg Chinese investors have dumped Hong Kong stocks at a record clip this month, as the city’s equity benchmark tumbled to its lowest in a year. Mainland investors sold net HK$25.4 billion ($3.2 billion) of Hong Kong equities in August through Tuesday, according to Bloomberg calculations based on daily turnover data. That’s the biggest monthly selling figure since China opened ...

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US stocks trade near all-time highs, Treasury yields climb

Bloomberg US stocks churned near all-time highs, while Treasury yields climbed as investors assessed the latest developments from the Trump administration’s trade policies. The S&P 500 clung to a record after opening above 2,900 for the first time. Rate-sensitive shares retreated as the 10-year Treasury yield moved towards 2.90 percent. The Mexican peso failed to hold onto Monday’s gains as ...

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Nafta-exposed European stocks taste sweeter

Bloomberg Sweetener-maker Tate & Lyle Plc, a UK household name due to its former glory days of supplying Britons with sugar for their tea, rose the most in three months on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said the US is pursuing a new trade accord with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. The 97-year-old company’s stock has ...

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US stocks hit records; Mexico’s peso rises on new trade pact

Bloomberg US stocks added to all-time highs, and Mexico’s peso rallied versus the dollar as the Trump administration closed a bilateral trade deal with America’s southern neighbor. Treasuries fell. The S&P 500 Index rose as President Donald Trump unveiled details of the agreement that he says will replace Nafta. The peso rallied Mexico. European shares advanced, though a British holiday ...

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Top-performing stock fund prefers Macy’s to Amazon

Bloomberg One of the world’s top-performing global stock funds is betting against Amazon.com. It’s not so much that Amazon won’t flourish, but that the recent rally in global technology behemoths has made brick-and-mortar retailers cheap in comparison, according to Norwegian fund Storebrand Global Multifactor. The valuations right now are “too pessimistic for the retailers and too optimistic for Internet retailers,” ...

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Hedge funds in pain watching ‘S&P 500 rally’ they’ve missed

Bloomberg US stocks are vaulting back to all-time highs. But the smart money isn’t celebrating. Instead, they’re nursing pain. Hedge funds have seen returns dwindling even as the S&P 500 Index marches forward in what has become, by some measures, the longest bull market ever. An index tracking the performance of funds focusing on equities has fallen in five of ...

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