Bloomberg Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez is already facing pushback from the multi-coloured alliance that put him into office less than three weeks ago. In his first question and answer session at the Parliament in Madrid, a left-wing group from the Valencia region complained that Sanchez is backing away from plans to reform the regional financing system and questioned whether it ...

Bloomberg US stocks were lifted by a rally in tech shares as concerns about a potential global trade war eased. Treasury yields edged higher and oil rallied. The S&P 500 was slightly higher after paring an early advance, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average slipped a seventh straight day. The Nasdaq Composite Index added to an all-time high, buoyed by ...

Bloomberg Crude clung to gains after a larger-than-expected decline in US crude stockpiles heightened the importance of a key OPEC meeting later this week. Futures rose as much as 1.9 percent in New York on Wednesday. American oil inventories plunged by 5.91 million barrels last week, a bigger withdrawal than any of the 12 analysts in a Bloomberg survey expected. ...