Bloomberg Steelmakers aren’t out of the woods yet. A year-long rebound risks fading as a slowdown in China’s property market deepens, exposing bullish sentiment as overblown, according to a US-based hedge fund manager and former Citigroup Inc. analyst. “China’s real estate sector is the biggest X-factor for the steel market globally this year,” Ivan Szpakowski, chief investment officer at ...

  Bloomberg China’s producer prices increased the most since 2011, with the world’s biggest exporter further lifting the outlook for global inflation. Producer price index rose 6.9 percent in January from a year earlier, compared with a median estimate of 6.5 percent in a Bloomberg survey and a 5.5 percent December gain. Consumer-price index climbed 2.5 percent, boosted by the ...

  Bloomberg Australian business conditions jumped to the highest level in more than nine years and the employment gauge surged, diminishing the likelihood of interest-rate cuts in the near term. The business conditions index — a measure of hiring, sales and profits — jumped to 16 in January from a revised 10 in December, a National Australia Bank Ltd. survey ...