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Bloomberg Stocks in Europe declined and bond yields climbed as markets reopened after a holiday amid hawkish comments by Federal Reserve officials and Russia’s renewed campaign in eastern Ukraine. Healthcare stocks led the decline in the Stoxx Europe 600 index. Dutch automaker Stellantis NV slumped after halting output at factory near Moscow that makes vans, following a long list of ...

Bloomberg Investors have a clear message to China’s policy makers: more stimulus is needed, and quickly, to reignite a stalled recovery in markets. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) decision to give lenders a modest cash boost was met with declines in equities on Monday. And with data showing consumer spending took a dive in March, weighing on sentiment, traders ...

  Bloomberg US equity futures fall on Monday, while Treasury yields rise, as a jump in energy costs highlighted inflation concerns and cracks in China’s Covid-19-afflicted economy dimmed the growth outlook. US index futures followed a decline in Asia-Pacific stocks, which were sapped by Japan and China. Markets in Australia, Hong Kong and much of Europe remain shut for Easter. ...

  Bloomberg Elon Musk moves. An army of devoted traders listens. Retail investors piled into Twitter Inc. stock, after the world’s richest person and head of Tesla Inc. roiled the financial world with an audacious bid to purchase the company for $43 billion. Musk later expressed doubt about whether the blockbuster deal will succeed, but that didn’t do much to ...

  Bloomberg Stocks fall in Asia Friday as China unexpectedly opted against cutting a key policy interest rate, a reduction that had been widely expected to support an economy hamstrung by Covid-19 lockdowns. Equities were mixed on the mainland and fell in Japan and South Korea, among the few markets open amid Easter holidays. China has indicated it will reduce ...

  Bloomberg Inflation is surging, central banks are on the move and now it’s earnings season. To top it all off, stock traders face the market-roiling potential of a monthly options expiration estimated at more than $2 trillion. Roughly $495 billion in single-stock derivatives are set to expire, with another $980 billion of S&P 500-linked contracts and $170 billion in ...

  Bloomberg Bitcoin climbed above $41,000, advancing along with equities after China indicated it’s about to loosen monetary policy. The largest cryptocurrency rose as much as 0.6% to $41,500 on Thursday, gaining for a second day. Katie Stockton, co-founder of Fairlead Strategies LLC, said technical indicators she follows suggest Bitcoin could be due for a short-term bounce to as high ...

Bloomberg Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. raised its sales outlook for the year after quarterly earnings jumped 45%, helped by solid demand for chips used in everything from smartphones to cars. Annual revenue in dollar terms will top the previous outlook for as much as 20%-plus growth, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of chips said. Sales will rise to $17.6 billion ...

  Bloomberg The economic cycle is advancing to a point where valuations may finally matter again for stock and bond investors. Fortress-like in their refusal to bend for the better part of a decade, both asset classes have come under pressure thanks to the ever-stiffening resolve of central banks to restore order to the global economy. The S&P 500 has ...

Bloomberg Investors are flooding into exchange-traded funds focused on semiconductor stocks, wagering the industry will rebound from the supply-chain snags and chip shortage that have dragged the shares lower. Semiconductor ETFs have seen roughly $6.8 billion of inflows since the beginning of the year, surpassing the $5.2 billion for all of 2021 and the $2.1 billion for the year before, ...