Bloomberg More tech tantrums. China’s Covid surge. And above all, no central banks riding to the rescue if things go wrong. Reeling from a record $18 trillion wipeout, global stocks must surmount all these hurdles and more if they are to escape a second straight year in the red. With a drop of more than 20% in 2022, the MSCI ...

  Bloomberg It’s been a year of historic selloffs for US equities. Marked by surging inflation, jumbo-sized interest rate hikes, a darkening outlook on corporate earnings and recession clouds, the S&P 500 Index has lost 21%, on pace for its biggest slump since 2008. From crypto to former pandemic winners and so-called Faang stocks, investors have been shaken out of ...

  Dubai / WAM Starting from January 1, 2023, private sector companies with 50 employees or more that have not raised Emiratisation targets by 2 percent of skilled jobs in 2022, will be fined, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) said on Thursday. The fines are AED6,000 per month, a total of AED72,000 annually, for each Emirati who ...