Bloomberg Stock pickers are getting schooled on just how hard it is to outsmart the coronavirus pandemic-driven market. After the S&P 500’s biggest plunge since the March madness, expectations are rising that shares will move in lockstep again, a headwind for stock pickers looking to divine winners and losers. Add the fact that fewer companies are leading market gains this …

Bloomberg The recent rebound in emerging-market stocks isn’t over yet as investors move to assets that benefit from an improved outlook for the global economic recovery, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. “We’re quite positive on EM stocks on a tactical basis,” said Caesar Maasry, a New York-based emerging-market strategist at the firm. “There has been an increasing preference for …

Bloomberg Oil’s weekly winning streak has stopped in its tracks. After six straight periods of gains, US benchmark crude futures dropped 8.3% this week. Market sentiment soured after the Federal Reserve warned of the coronavirus pandemic’s prolonged damage to the economy. Plus, fears over a second wave of virus infections threaten to disrupt any demand recovery. While crude has pushed …