Bloomberg For all the shine and sophistication, for all the jargon, robots and quants, financial markets are still only this: Buyers buying and sellers selling, times a billion. Behind every trade — perhaps far behind — there is an actual human person. Two, in fact. And because humans disagree a lot, markets do too. And do they ever disagree just ...

Bloomberg Middle East stocks generally advanced on Sunday, catching up with emerging-market peers, as traders returned to work following holidays. Gauges in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt climbed following last week’s increase for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Stock exchanges in the Arab world were closed for most of last week due to Eid al-Fitr, the holiday ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc expects the yuan to weaken past 7 per dollar in the next three months — a level the currency hasn’t breached in more than a decade. The bank revised its forecasts for the yuan against the dollar because it sees the currency’s decline as a natural offset to higher US tariffs, even if policymakers are ...