Bloomberg US stocks halted the longest rally since 2017 as investors awaited signs of progress in the trade war with China ahead of the latest corporate earnings season. Treasuries dropped, while West Texas crude hit a five-month high. The S&P 500 edged towards its first decline in eight sessions, as the post-Christmas rally stalled with the index about 1.5 percent ...

Bloomberg Pound traders appear undaunted by the lack of Brexit clarity even with just days left for Britain to officially leave the European Union. The UK currency was up on Monday and a gauge of expected short-term sterling volatility is near a two-week low, showing there’s little panic even as the April 12 exit date draws closer. Investors are increasingly ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser says the US and China are “closer and closer” to a trade deal, and that top-tier officials would be talking again this week via “a lot of teleconferencing.” Larry Kudlow’s “guarded optimism, maybe more than guarded optimism” on CBS’s “Face the Nation” came after China’s state-run Xinhua news agency reported that progress was ...