Bloomberg US stocks rallied on the final day of one of the worst months of the bull market, as earnings from Facebook jolted tech shares higher. The dollar added to a 16-month high. The S&P 500 Index headed for the first back-to-back gains of October, paring its steepest monthly drop since 2011 to 7 percent. Strong earnings that had largely ...

Bloomberg For South Korean stock investors, a rebound did little to revive optimism. Sentiment among fund managers remains decisively negative as the benchmark Kospi Index heads for the world’s biggest monthly slide after entering bear territory last week. The nation’s equity market has lost more than $300 billion in value in about a month, with the benchmark dipping below the ...

Bloomberg Oil’s set for its biggest monthly drop since 2016 as the specter of a slowdown in the global economy haunts the market while US inventories grow and producers relay mixed signals. Futures in New York are poised for an 8.8 percent drop in October, following two months of gains. A global equity rout and an escalating US-China trade war ...