Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co.’s average loans tumbled in the second quarter as consumers and businesses, buoyed by pandemic stimulus programs, refrained from more borrowing. The average balance of the bank’s lending book dropped 12% to $854.7 billion, according to a statement. The result mirrored a similar decline at Bank of America Corp, which said earlier that loans and leases ...

Bloomberg Pain is likely to come down fast and hard for any European company that doesn’t deliver this earnings season. At least, that’s the early read from a handful of names among the ones that have reported so far. Online-only fashion retailer Asos Plc saw almost a fifth of its market value wiped out in a single day on weaker ...

Bloomberg Asia’s two biggest economies are showing some signs of getting to grips with problems that weighed on their financial markets in the first half of the year, and that may bode well for their equities. That’s the view of UBS Global Wealth Management and Aberdeen Standard Investments Ltd, which cite encouraging earnings growth in China and a pickup in ...