Bloomberg Financial markets across China are buzzing with activity as easing Covid lockdowns boost trading. Yuan-trading volumes in the onshore market bounced off two-year lows while stock turnover topped the key $149 billion mark for two straight sessions this week. That’s after Shanghai officially reopened following a two-month lockdown and Beijing further loosened Covid-19 curbs, spurring bets of an …

Bloomberg Global wealth rises 10.6% last year to reach a record high of $530 trillion in 2021 and is set to continue rising in all regions despite inflationary pressures and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Strong equity markets and a surge in demand for real assets such as property and art drove the increase, according to a report by Boston Consulting …

  Bloomberg European semiconductor stocks have gotten swept up in the sell-everything-tech environment even as the industry enjoys red-hot demand that’s bolstering this year’s earnings, because investors are already looking ahead to a tougher 2023. The region’s biggest chip-related companies, ASML Holding NV and Infineon Technologies AG, have lost a quarter of their value this year and are trading at …