Bloomberg Nobody knew it then, but this time last year, the rallying US stock market was about to begin a plunge that would erase $5 trillion from share values and convince a lot of people a recession was at hand. Then, as now, a trade war was raging, earnings in doubt and manufacturing losing steam. In the stock market, swings …

Bloomberg Stablecoins, a fast-growing subset of cryptocurrencies designed to avoid the large fluctuations of Bitcoin and Ether, could fail to function properly in periods of stress, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. While the total value of all stablecoins is less than $5 billion, the low-volatility tokens are poised for rapid growth, and none more so than the Libra coin …

Bloomberg Aviation executives are increasingly worried that a widening split between regulators in the US and Europe will extend the grounding of Boeing Co’s 737 Max, sowing confusion and fear as officials work to approve the resumption of commercial flights after two deadly crashes. Sounding the alarm over the increasingly tenuous alliance were Aengus Kelly, who heads the largest global …