Bloomberg US equity-index futures turned higher along with shares in Europe after a down session in Asia on Monday as investors assessed the latest developments in the Sino-American trade war. The dollar strengthened. Contracts on all three main US equity indexes rose after President Donald Trump said that prospects for a deal with China were better now than at any ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong stocks slumped and the yuan weakened to an 11-year low as concern over the US-China trade war spurred risk-off sentiment. The Hang Seng Index closed down 1.9 percentin Hong Kong, after falling as much as 3.6 percent. Meat producer WH Group Ltd, AAC Technologies Holdings Inc and Cnooc Ltd were among the worst performers. The yuan slid ...

Bloomberg Most Germans live by the credo that saving is a virtue, but the European Central Bank’s (ECB) negative interest rates risk making a mockery of the national obsession, prompting politicians to seek ways to insulate thrifty citizens and keep the burden on the country’s beleaguered banks. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz says he’ll look into whether it’s possible to prevent ...