Hong Kong / AFP Most Asia stock markets went into reverse on Wednesday after a recent rally, with energy firms down and oil unable to hold early gains after an output freeze by top producers Saudi Arabia and Russia left investors disappointed. The commodity had enjoyed a surge from Friday to early Tuesday as Moscow and Riyadh — the world’s ...

New York / AFP Beaten-down technology and banking shares jumped Tuesday as US stocks shrugged off a drop in oil prices to move firmly higher. The Dow Jones Industrial rose 222.57 points (1.39 percent) to 16,196.41. The broad-based S&P 500 climbed 30.80 (1.65 percent) to 1,895.58, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index jumped 98.44 (2.27 percent) to 4,435.96. Apple and ...

LONDON / Bloomberg Roll your dice. Pass “Go.” Collect $200. Buy a railway station. In reality, investing in commercial real estate has never been as simple as Monopoly makes it seem. Individuals generally can’t buy directly into commercial property development deals at all. But now U.K. startup BrickVest is seeking to do something vaguely reminiscent — it’s bringing big-time commercial ...