Stocks

  Bloomberg The UK has surpassed India as the world’s sixth-largest equity market for the first time in almost nine months as a weaker pound boosted the appeal of heavyweight exporters trading in London and Adani Group-led jitters weighed on stocks in Mumbai. The combined market capitalisation of the primary listings in the UK, excluding ETFs and ADRs, reached about ...

  Bloomberg A notice buried towards the back of a Tokyo Stock Exchange document last month encouraging better corporate governance has led to some big share price moves. The Japanese bourse said it will request companies trading below book value to come up with capital improvement plans starting this spring. While just the latest in a long series of such ...

  Bloomberg US equity-index futures and European stocks fell as investors worried about the prospects of interest-rates staying higher for longer and a deepening of geopolitical tensions. The dollar rebounded on haven appeal. Contracts on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes dropped at least 0.6% each with US markets set to return from a holiday. European stocks fell as ...

  Bloomberg The combined equity market value of Adani group’s 10 companies slipped below $100 billion on Tuesday, as the embattled conglomerate struggles to reassure investors following a scathing report by a US short seller. The ports-to-power group has now lost more than $136 billion in market capitalisation since January 24, when US-based Hindenburg Research published a report alleging accounting ...

  Bloomberg SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son increased the amount of stock pledged as collateral to financial institutions to 175.25 million shares, or about 35% of his total stake in the Japanese conglomerate. The 65-year-old billionaire disclosed an increase of about 4.3 million shares as of February 13, worth about 24.5 billion yen ($183 million) at current prices. This ...

  Bloomberg Adani Group companies have seen more than $135 billion of equity market value wiped out since the explosive Hindenburg Research report, but none is hit as bad as Adani Total Gas Ltd. The stock has lost more than three quarters of its value since the short seller report was published on January 24. Yet, it is the second-most ...

  Bloomberg Global stocks trimmed gains and US equity-index futures dropped on concern the Federal Reserve will keep borrowing costs higher for longer. Optimism over China’s economic recovery that drove a rally in Asia fizzled in European hours. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index erased an advance, falling for a second day. The Shanghai Composite Index earlier climbed the most since ...

  Bloomberg US equity futures and European stocks dropped in the face of hawkish comments from Federal Reserve and European Central Bank (ECB) officials that ramped up investors’ expectations of higher interest rates. The dollar rallied and bonds fell. Contracts for both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 retreated after the underlying indexes sank more than 1% on February 16. ...

Bloomberg The delayed arrival of a US recession will weigh on stocks in the second half of the year, according to Bank of America Corp. (BofA) strategists, who say a resilient economy thus far means interest rates will stay higher for longer. A team led by Michael Hartnett is among those predicting a scenario known as “no landing” in the ...

  Bloomberg A $2 trillion swathe of China’s local bond market is approaching a risky inflection point as issuers struggle to refinance maturing debt. Net financing — new yuan bond issuances minus maturities — for the country’s local government financing vehicles, or LGFVs, turned negative in the fourth quarter of 2022 for the first time in at least four years, ...