Bloomberg BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said that intensifying global trade tensions may spur a broad market downturn and a slowdown in the US economy. Stocks could drop 10 percent to 15 percent and US gross domestic product would start slowing in 2019 if the Trump administration sees through its threat to levy tariffs on an additional $200 ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG abandoned its forecast for the yuan to appreciate this year, anticipating that the trade war will continue to put pressure on the currency, hurt China’s economic growth and spur the country’s policy makers to unleash more liquidity. “With underlying pressures on CNY set to intensify and China’s current-account surplus likely to decline notably, we see CNY ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s central bank devalued the rupee for the fourth time since December, according to bankers with knowledge of the matter, as economic pressures persist before a national election in nine days. The currency, whose rate is set by the central bank, dropped as much as 5.3 percent to 128 per dollar at the close, according to State Bank of ...