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Stocks, bonds rally as ECB’s Draghi fuels stimulus hopes

Bloomberg Stocks rallied with bonds on Tuesday as comments from ECB officials added fuel to investors’ hopes for easier monetary policies from the world’s biggest central banks. Futures on the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100 and Dow Jones indexes advanced along with the Stoxx Europe 600, while Japan’s Topix bucked the trend as most Asian gauges rose earlier. The euro turned ...

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MoneyGram soars with Ripple tie-up

Bloomberg MoneyGram International Inc soared as much as 155 percent in early trading after a tie-up with blockchain-technology company Ripple. The rally is reminiscent of late 2017, when a wave of small-cap stocks saw valuations multiply as they re-branded as blockchain companies. The difference is that MoneyGram is an established company with about 2,400 staff and $1.4 billion in annual ...

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Trump to swap Obama’s ‘clean power plan’ for modest upgrades

Bloomberg The Trump administration is on track to obliterate former President Barack Obama’s signature plan for combating climate change by replacing sweeping curbs on power plant emissions with requirements for modest upgrades at the sites. The Environmental Protection Agency is set to unveil its rewrite of the Clean Power Plan as soon as Wednesday, finalising a replacement rule that would ...

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