Bloomberg With the world anxiously waiting to see whether the Venezuelan military throws its weight behind interim leader Juan Guaido, the role of the armed forces in Latin America has been regaining prominence. After decades of democratization, with soldiers largely confined to barracks and borders, Latin American governments are turning to the military to run ministries, oversee state projects and ...

Bloomberg US equity futures and European stocks advanced on Wednesday, as the latest batch of corporate earnings helped steady investor nerves while they await the Federal Reserve rate decision and any developments on trade. Treasury yields ticked up as the dollar drifted. Contracts across the S&P 500, Nasdaq and Dow Jones indexes all rose amid a slew of results from ...

Bloomberg Foreign investors are piling into Chinese stocks after a dismal 2018 for the country’s equity market. They’ve bought 52 billion yuan ($7.8 billion) of A shares via trading connects in Shanghai and Shenzhen this January, putting it on course to be the biggest month for inflows since the second exchange link with Hong Kong opened in late 2016, Bloomberg ...