Bloomberg US stocks fell, while Treasuries rose after a key gauge of manufacturing posted the weakest reading since the end of the last recession. Gold turned higher along with the yen. The S&P 500 declined for the third time in four sessions, erasing an earlier advance more than 0.5 percent, after the Institute for Supply Management’s factory index slipped to …

Bloomberg What’s the world’s most widely used cryptocurrency? If you think it’s Bitcoin, which accounts for about 70 percent of all the digital-asset world’s market value, you’re probably wrong. While concrete figures on trading volumes are hard to come by in this often murky corner of finance, data from CoinMarketCap.com show that the token with the highest daily and monthly …

Bloomberg Indian regulators’ ability to come to grips with the nation’s banking crisis has been thrown into doubt amid reports that a cooperative lender had extended outsize loans to an insolvent developer. The Reserve Bank of India took the rare step of limiting withdrawals from Mumbai-based Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank Ltd. Local media reported that loans to Housing …