Bloomberg Stocks surged on Tuesday after the Trump administration said there was progress coming out of its two-day mid-level trade talks with China. The dollar rose with Treasury yields, and crude climbed towards $50 a barrel on expectations the market will be tightened by OPEC’s output cuts. All major US equity benchmarks were higher. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq gauges ...

Bloomberg India stocks rose as investors positioned for the corporate earnings’ season that begins this week amid estimates that economic growth may be slower than forecast. The S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.4 percent to close at 35,980.93 in Mumbai after swinging between gains and losses. The broader NSE Nifty 50 Index rose 0.3 percent. India’s largest companies this week begin ...

Bloomberg For the Federal Reserve, 2019 has started out looking a lot like 2016: the last time uncertainty over global growth roiled financial markets for months on end. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell pointed to the 2016 episode to underscore the US central bank’s ability to be flexible when necessary, recalling the Fed held interest rates steady almost all year. But ...