Bloomberg At a time when emerging markets have been roughed up by trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies, the earnings picture in India is improving. That’s the message from Morgan Stanley as it expects companies in the S&P BSE Sensex to report a 23 percent increase in net income in the June quarter from a year earlier, with more ...
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US stocks rally as greenback strengthens, Treasuries slip
Bloomberg US equities joined a global rally that began in Asia as investors set aside concern about escalating trade tensions to focus on the coming earnings season. The pound erased gains after pro-Brexit official Boris Johnson quit as UK foreign secretary. The S&P 500 Index rose to the highest since mid-June and the Dow Jones Industrial Average popped through key ...
Read More »China stocks rebound with biggest gain since 2016
Bloomberg Chinese large cap stocks climbed the most in two years, bouncing back from a bruising run of losses in the lead up to the imposition of US tariffs from July 6. The yuan also rose after retreating for four weeks straight. The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 2.5 percent, the most since May 2016, following seven weekly declines in a ...
Read More »Good week for S&P 500 held bad news for active funds
Bloomberg A week of tumult on the trade front was also the best week in a month for S&P 500 bulls. Active stock managers weren’t celebrating. They’ve watched in shock as the best-laid efforts to beat benchmarks are squeezed as the contour of the rally shifts. Funds are being betrayed by the companies they love, including tech megacaps and banks, ...
Read More »Swiss plan first end-to-end exchange to trade digital assets
Bloomberg SIX, the owner of Switzerland’s securities exchange in Zurich, is creating platform for trading digital assets, boosting a nascent industry that some countries are trying to suffocate. The new platform will offer a “fully integrated, end-to-end trading, settlement and custody service,†the world’s first to do so, the bourse said. The parent exchange, regulated by Finma and the Swiss ...
Read More »World’s largest crypto exchange eyes $1bn profit amid rout
Bloomberg This year’s cryptocurrency crash has saddled bulls with billions of dollars in losses, but the world’s largest virtual currency exchange is still making money hand over fist. Binance expects a net profit of $500 million to $1 billion in 2018, according to its chief executive officer. First half revenue was about $300 million, Changpeng Zhao said. Average daily turnover ...
Read More »Stocks mixed in holiday-hit trading; dollar stays steady
Bloomberg European stocks struggled for direction while futures for the S&P 500 advanced in a lackluster session overshadowed by the US holiday. There was a more downbeat mood in Asia where shares slipped even as the yuan extended a rebound. Telecom companies were the biggest winners on the Stoxx Europe 600 Index, though declines in technology shares helped offset the ...
Read More »Rife with anxiety, markets churning at multi-year high
Bloomberg Once the hallmark of this bull run, complacency has made way for angst. From junk bonds to emerging-market stocks, market turnover is through the roof, reaching multi-year highs. Within the S&P 500 Index, investors traded more than $2.9 trillion worth of shares in each of the past two quarters, a feat last achieved in early 2008. Burgeoning uncertainty — ...
Read More »Stocks climb as China says ‘won’t use yuan as a weapon’
Bloomberg US stocks rose with European shares on Tuesday after China said it won’t use the yuan as a weapon in any trade dispute. Oil briefly rose above $75 a barrel for the first time since November 2014. All major US benchmarks were higher, paced by strength in energy, on lighter than normal volume heading into the US. Telecom companies ...
Read More »Oil surges above $75 as supply outages outpace OPEC
Bloomberg Crude soared above $75 a barrel in New York for the first time since 2014 on signs global supply outages outweigh OPEC’s pledged production rise. Futures in New York jumped as much as 1.7 percent. Even as US President Donald Trump — facing sky-high retail gasoline prices ahead of midterm elections — urges to boost output more than it ...
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