Wall Street was a very conservative place politically when I started working in the capital markets in 1999, but it seems to have lurched to the left lately. It’s not only that many of the people who work there have become more liberal, but more importantly, left-leaning behaviour by publicly traded companies is being rewarded by the stock market. The ...

Bloomberg European stocks climbed, US futures pared earlier declines and Asian shares were mixed after the latest China-tariff hikes kicked in. The dollar rose alongside gold. The Stoxx Europe 600 advanced for a third straight session, led by telecom and utilities shares. Equities in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia declined in thin volumes a day after President Donald Trump’s duties ...

Bloomberg In a classic illustration of the seemingly perverse relationship between UK news and its stock market, several British large-caps notched record highs on Monday as the equity benchmark outshone all of Europe. The FTSE 100 jumped as much as 1.4 percent, the most since July and more than double the gain of the Stoxx Europe 600, with companies including ...