Bloomberg China’s yuan fixings have steadied over the past week, spurring speculation that the central bank wants to cap currency losses using a method last seen in the US-China trade war in 2019. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set the yuan reference rate near 7.1 per dollar for a seventh session, a move that would support the currency around ...

  Bloomberg UK bonds surged to head for their biggest weekly rally in a decade on mounting expectations the government is preparing an imminent retreat from plans for vast unfunded tax cuts. The rally came at the end of another tumultuous week for markets, with both bonds and the pound yo-yoing on changing sentiment. UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is ...

Bloomberg A shift towards private markets is cushioning many of the world’s largest investors from the wreckage wrought by runaway inflation and spiralling interest rates. The big question now looming over giants from China’s $1.2 trillion sovereign wealth fund to California’s public pension, the largest in the US, is how long those private bets will remain insulated as the economic ...