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US stocks extend declines as Treasuries, dollar stabilise

Bloomberg US stocks extended losses as traders remained on edge following Friday’s sell-off. Treasuries and the dollar steadied. Technology and energy shares led declines in the S&P 500 Index, and a rebound in banks fizzled out. Ten-year Treasury yields traded near 2.44 percent after a closely-watched part of the US curve inverted as investors wager the Federal Reserve will need ...

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Pound to rally if control of Brexit options gets vote

Bloomberg The pound will rally if lawmakers vote to give themselves a say on what happens next with Brexit, strategists say. Sterling was expected to gain about 1 percent if UK parliament approved a motion to allow votes on Brexit options, said Jeremy Stretch, head of Group-of-10 currency strategy at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. The move would give lawmakers ...

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US exchanges handle 29% of global Bitcoin trading

Bloomberg US exchanges handle about 29 percent of global Bitcoin trading — much more than previously thought because some unregulated rivals overseas are inflating their volumes, according to estimates from a firm working to create a crypto exchange-traded fund. The US is the world’s second-largest domicile for exchanges by trading volume after Malta, Bitwise Asset Management found in a report. ...

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