Bloomberg US stocks struggled to hold onto a sixth straight gain as investors weighed the outlook for trade talks and interest rate policy. Treasuries were steady and the dollar edged higher. The S&P 500 Index erased most of its advance near midday as gains in tech hardware makers were offset by losses for industrial companies. Mining and automobile shares pulled …

Bloomberg Indian equities capped a third day of gains as investors picked out value in a market that’s one of the region’s best-performers this year. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.4 percent to 39,950.46 at the close in Mumbai, paring a larger gain, and the NSE Nifty 50 Index advanced by the same magnitude. India’s key equity indexes have …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG investment-banking head Garth Ritchie and former co-Chief Executive Officer Anshu Jain were swept into a widening German probe on dividend tax payments, adding to strain on top leadership as the shares hover near record lows. Ritchie and Jain joined a growing list of potential targets for prosecutors investigating the so-called cum-ex tax scandal that’s rocked Germany’s …