Stocks

BLOOMBERG Even as Warren Buffett’s blessing and buying by the foreign investors helps drives outperformance in Japanese stocks this year, retail investors are turning increasingly bearish. The blue-chip Nikkei 225 Stock Average has risen more than 9% so far to above 28,000, while the MSCI Asia Pacific Index Excluding Japan Index is up less than 1%. Gains have been helped ...

BLOOMBERG A rout in Chinese stocks paused after a $446 billion wipeout in value for mainland shares this month, but a meaningful rebound may be hard to come by as geopolitical tensions simmer. The benchmark CSI 300 Index ended little changed on Wednesday. The MSCI gauge of Chinese shares advanced as much as 1.6% after a six-day slide, though it’s ...

BLOOMBERG The rebound in European equities since mid-March has failed to win over strategists, who predict that the sustained campaign of central-bank interest rate hikes will stall the rally. They are sticking to their gloomy outlook for the rest of 2023, unconvinced by a 10% advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 so far. The benchmark index is set to fall ...

BLOOMBERG Excitement over electric vehicles and other technology has made South Korea’s stock market one of the world’s best performers in 2023 — and its initial public offerings (IPOs) are doing even better. The 28 stocks that have listed in Seoul this year to date are up by a weighted average of 47% from their IPO prices. That’s ahead of even ...

BLOOMBERG The biggest two-day slide in Chinese stocks this year suggests traders may be losing faith in the market’s rebound as they reassess inherent risks including geopolitical tensions and a fragile economy. The CSI 300 benchmark has closed 1.2% lower to breach a key technical level, led by declines in technology and materials shares. That added to a 2% drop ...

BLOOMBERG European stocks and US equity futures struggled for direction as traders weighed the latest corporate earnings reports at the start of a week packed with economic data that may help illuminate the path for interest rates. The Stoxx Europe 600 was little changed, with energy companies leading declines as crude prices extended last week’s slump. Banks gained, with UBS ...

BLOOMBERG It would likely cost more than $130 billion a year to end deforestation by the end of this decade, according to a report from a group of financiers, energy industry executives and academics. The Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), which counts senior BP Plc and BlackRock Inc employees among its members, said the analysis is a first-of-its-kind estimate of how ...

BLOOMBERG Bitcoin dropped back below the closely watched $30,000 level amid a wider retreat in the cryptocurrencies, as stubbornly high inflation in the UK fanned fears of higher-for-longer interest rates. The largest token fell 4.5% before paring some of the slide to trade at about $29,175 in London. Ether shed 6% and smaller tokens like Solana and Avalanche suffered steeper declines. ...

BLOOMBERG US equity futures retreated along with European stocks and bond yields rose as traders assessed the latest corporate earnings reports against the backdrop of yet another hot inflation print from one of the world’s major economies. Contracts on the rates-sensitive Nasdaq 100 fell about 0.8%, while those on the S&P 500 were down 0.5%. Morgan Stanley gained in premarket ...

BLOOMBERG Bitcoin’s 2023 rebound has stalled around the closely watched $30,000 level, hampered by the latest US crypto crackdown and a more sober assessment of the outlook for Federal Reserve monetary policy. The largest token edged up less than 2% to $29,941 in New York, after sinking 3% a day earlier in its worst drop since March 9. Ether and ...