Stocks

BLOOMBERG The rally in stocks sputtered with traders once again watching policy makers for clues on whether they’ll dial back their higher-for-longer stance on interest rates. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index slipped 0.3% and US equity futures traded flat. Oil hovered near a three-month low after plunging almost 7% over the previous two sessions. Yields on 10-year Treasuries held below 4.5%.  ...

BLOOMBERG It took just over 18 months, but Bitcoin is finally back to where it traded before the event that precipitated the last crypto crash. The dominant cryptocurrency rose as much as 3.6% to $36,856 on Thursday. That’s the highest since May 6, 2022 — just before the TerraUSD stablecoin collapsed and ignited a daisy chain of failures across the ...

BLOOMBERG Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc plans to sell yen-denominated corporate bonds for the second time this year, according to lead underwriter Mizuho Securities Co. The company is considering issuing the bonds in the near future, and sales will be limited to qualified institutional investors in Japan, according Mizuho, which said that itself and BofA Securities Japan Co will manage ...

BLOOMBERG Stocks edged lower as investors awaited clues on the path of interest rates from a raft of central bank officials including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.  Europe’s Stoxx 600 fell 0.1% and US equity futures traded little changed. The 10-year Treasury yields climbed by three basis points to 4.6%. West Texas Intermediate held at $77, near a three-year low. ...

BLOOMBERG Stocks retreated and the dollar rose after a Federal Reserve policymaker dampened hopes of speedy interest rate cuts from the US central bank.  Europe’s Stoxx 600 equity index opened around flat, and US equity futures contracts slipped about 0.2% as it became clear central banks will lean against traders’ rate-cut bets. Financial shares rose, led by UBS Group AG, ...

BLOOMBERG South Korea’s benchmark stock index fell, as a jump on November 6 triggered by the nation’s sudden ban on short-selling ran its course. The benchmark Kospi finished 2.3% lower — while the small-cap Kosdaq Index slid 1.8% — after foreign and local institutional investors reduced equities. Kospi had surged 5.7% on November 6, its best performance since March 2020, ...

BLOOMBERG Zambia’s central bank raised the ratio of deposits that commercial lenders must hold in a bid to reverse a slide in the world’s worst-performing currency after Argentina’s peso.The Bank of Zambia will increase the statutory reserve ratio requirement for local- and foreign-currency deposits by 3 percentage points to 14.5% with effect from November 13, it said in a circular ...

BLOOMBERG South Korea will prohibit stock short-selling until June 2024 to allow regulators to “actively” improve rules and systems, the Financial Services Commission said. Trading with borrowed shares, an essential component of short selling, will be banned for companies in the Kospi 200 Index and Kosdaq 150 Index from Monday until the end of June, the commission said. “Amidst market ...

BLOOMBERG Stock and bond markets steadied after last week’s blockbuster rally, with traders still optimistic that US and European central banks may start cutting interest rates as soon as next year. Europe’s Stoxx 600 index held to recent gains and US futures added about 0.2%. Asian markets jumped, with South Korea’s Kospi finishing more than 5% higher after regulators banned ...

BLOOMBERG Bitcoin rose back to a more than 17-month high amid hopes the Federal Reserve is done with interest-rate hikes and expectations that a fresh source of demand is brewing in the exchange-traded fund industry. The largest digital token added 4% in the past 24 hours and traded at $35,840 in Singapore on Thursday. Some smaller coins climbed, including the ...