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Tim Sloan is not turning around Wells Fargo at all

What’s the appropriate board gift for a CEO’s two-year anniversary? If you’re Tim Sloan at Wells Fargo & Co., the correct answer is a short leash. Sloan took over the CEO role in mid-October 2016, which means the anniversary is this week. At the very least, Sloan badly underestimated the problems facing his bank. But he’s also been slow to ...

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Stocks retreat, US Treasuries steady; yuan gains on trading

Bloomberg All eyes were on benchmark Treasuries on Tuesday as trading reopened in the wake of last week’s selloff and following a holiday. The 10-year yield crept up to a fresh seven-year high before erasing the move, while US equity futures slid with stocks across Asia and Europe. Both the S&P 500 and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index looked poised ...

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Fund investors in India stay put despite stock-market rout

Bloomberg Investors in Indian equity funds held tight and even bought more last month, seemingly unfazed by the selloff triggered by a tumbling currency and a crisis at a troubled lender. Stock funds took in 111 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) in September, the most since May, up from 83 billion rupees in August, data from the Association of Mutual Funds ...

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