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Bond investors seeing taper party this time for India, Indonesia

As local-currency bonds in Indonesia joined the recent global debt selloff, Aberdeen Asset Management Plc and Western Asset Management Co. had a simple strategy: buy more. The money managers see the nation’s securities, along with India’s, as the best bets to weather any selloff in emerging Asia as the European Central Bank prepares to join the Federal Reserve in paring ...

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48 years on, the battle for the moon begins

On the 48th anniversary of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon, an Illinois attorney hopes to pocket as much as $4 million at a Sotheby’s auction of a bag that Apollo 11 astronauts filled with rocks. The bag’s history is as interesting as its travels: the US government accidentally sold it in 2015, then fought the buyer, Nancy Lee ...

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Euro heads for decline as carmakers weigh on stocks

Bloomberg The euro headed for its first decline in three days as data showed the region’s economy cooling at the start of a week packed with corporate results and a Federal Reserve rate decision. Stocks were dragged down for a second day by carmakers amid a collusion probe. The common currency halted the advance that saw it hit a two-year ...

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