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Bloomberg A boost from the Bank of England, spoilt in no time by Brexit gloom — this has been a recurring pattern for the pound of late. This week may be no exception. While a hawkish surprise out of Thursday’s BOE meeting — namely, Chief Economist Andy Haldane’s shift of stance in favour of raising interest rates — gave the ...

Bloomberg Of all the forces swaying equity prices, earnings expectations are the hardest to see. They don’t make headlines, are difficult to quantify and get lost in the din around trade wars and politics. Yet ignoring them is to miss the biggest part of what influences the market — the force that keeps the peace in a week like this. ...

Bloomberg Bitcoin extended losses as it approached the lowest price for the year after Japanese regulators hit six of the country’s biggest cryptocurrency trading venues with business-improvement orders. The biggest virtual currency fell as much as 10 percent to $6,045.31, testing the low for the year of $5,922 that was set on February 6, according to prices compiled by Bloomberg. ...

Bloomberg US stocks were lifted by a rally in tech shares as concerns about a potential global trade war eased. Treasury yields edged higher and oil rallied. The S&P 500 was slightly higher after paring an early advance, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped a seventh straight day. The Nasdaq Composite Index added to an all-time high, buoyed by ...

Bloomberg Crude clung to gains after a larger-than-expected decline in US crude stockpiles heightened the importance of a key OPEC meeting later this week. Futures rose as much as 1.9 percent in New York on Wednesday. American oil inventories plunged by 5.91 million barrels last week, a bigger withdrawal than any of the 12 analysts in a Bloomberg survey expected. ...

Bloomberg Investors dumped riskier assets as a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies showed signs of deepening and accelerating. Stocks dropped, Treasuries rallied and the dollar climbed with the yen. The S&P 500 sank the most in three weeks with industrial companies getting hit hardest after President Donald Trump threatened tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, ...

Bloomberg A rout in commodities deepened as the threat of a trade war between the world’s two biggest economies intensified, hitting markets from steelmakers to soybeans. As the tit-for-tat trade dispute between the US and China stepped up, a Bloomberg gauge of commodities fell to the lowest since early April, with agriculture being the worst hit. Almost all raw materials ...

Bloomberg US stocks shook off the worst of their losses as oil rose before a key OPEC meeting this week. Equities declined in Europe and Asia amid concern over the escalating protectionist standoff between China and the US. The S&P 500 came off its lows of the day as energy shares advanced along with software makers. The Stoxx Europe 600 ...

Bloomberg Singapore Exchange (SGX) and National Stock Exchange of India Ltd. will remain partners for a little longer than both anticipated. An arbitrator deciding on a quarrel between the exchanges over Indian stock futures contracts ordered them to extend their licensing agreement beyond August, and for at least two months after the end of arbitration. It ordered SGX to refrain ...

Bloomberg Bitcoin edged lower, bringing its four-day slide to about 16 percent, as questions mount about whether the world’s biggest cryptocurrency was manipulated during last year’s record price surge. The digital coin has closed below its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages for the past 16 days, the longest stretch below those support levels this year. Bitcoin, which surged more ...