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  Bloomberg Fish farmers will need to get more kroner out of every fish to provide the next lift for the Oslo exchange’s best-performing sector over the past five years. That means making their product less a commodity and more a consumer friendly, ready-to-eat staple to provide more stable earnings, according to Leif Eriksrod, head of equities at Alfred Berg ...

  Bloomberg US stocks fell with the dollar and Treasuries as investors speculated the Federal Reserve will err in favour of more accommodation as it assesses the path for future rate hikes. Crude slipped below $49 a barrel. The S&P 500 Index failed to add to its best advance in two weeks, with health-care shares leading declines. Emerging-market equities surged ...

  Bloomberg US stocks extended gains, Treasuries rallied and the dollar tumbled after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected while keeping steady its forecast that it will tighten a total of three times this year. The S&P 500 Index rose 0.5 percent, while the yield on 10-year Treasury notes tumbled to 2.53 percent at 2:02 p.m. in New ...

  Bloomberg European stocks rose, lifted by gains in mining companies, as traders prepared for decisions by Federal Reserve officials and by Dutch voters that may give market signals for the region’s interest rates and politics. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose 0.4 percent at the close. Raw materials producers including Rio Tinto Plc and Glencore Plc led a rebound ...

  SEOUL / AP Global stocks drifted lower on Tuesday as investors looked to the Federal Reserve’s policy meeting for an expected interest rate increase and hints on future hikes. Britain’s pound fell after the country’s parliament cleared the way for Britain to start its exit process from the European Union. Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 0.1 percent to 7,358 while ...

  Bloomberg European Central Bank optimism on global growth bolstered the euro and sent bonds lower as the prospects for more stimulus dimmed. US stocks rose even as oil slid below $50 a barrel for the first time this year, exacerbating a slump in commodities. Lenders led the S&P 500 Index to its first gain in four days, as the ...

  Bloomberg US Treasuries headed for the longest losing streak in five years and the dollar rose as a private reading on US payrolls exceeded expectations, fueling bets the Federal Reserve will lift borrowing costs next week. US stocks fluctuated after a two-day slide. The yield on 10-year U.S. notes climbed for an eighth day to reach 2.56 percent after ...

  Bloomberg Here’s another way of thinking about how far stocks have come in nine years. Relative to balances in money market funds and cash among mutual fund managers, the value of global equities is the highest in almost two decades. That observation courtesy of Ned Davis Research, which framed the comparison as an indication “cash is underweight” in Planet ...

  Bloomberg US stocks slipped with Treasuries, while gold advanced as caution rippled through markets after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen all but assured investors that interest rates will rise next week. The S&P 500 Index slipped, with JPMorgan Chase & Co. warning that hawkish Fed rhetoric has increased the likelihood for a short-term pullback. The dollar and Treasuries were ...

  Bloomberg China’s top underwriter of convertible bonds said there is “substantial” scope for sales to grow this year as regulators curb secondary share offerings, providing investors with more options for betting on the nation’s rising equity market. China International Capital Corp., which has arranged $7.7 billion of convertible notes onshore and offshore in the past seven years, said issuance ...