Bloomberg US equities advanced alongside stocks in Europe as traders weighed the latest corporate earnings and moves to end the American government shutdown against lingering doubts over trade. The dollar’s six-day rally stalled and Treasury yields rose. The S&P 500, Dow Jones and Nasdaq indexes all opened higher after IBM topped profit estimates and Procter & Gamble increase the upper …

Bloomberg Nasdaq Inc and Citigroup Inc are among firms that are investing $20 million in Symbiont.io Inc, a New York-based company that’s applying blockchain technology to capital markets. Their support for Symbiont shows Wall Street’s enthusiasm for the technology behind Bitcoin hasn’t completely cooled with the collapse in cryptocurrencies. And it comes despite a growing pragmatism about the technology’s limitations …

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is examining how Deutsche Bank AG handled billions of dollars in suspicious transactions from Denmark’s leading lender, according to people familiar with the matter, further intensifying what could be one of the biggest money-laundering scandals ever. The Fed’s probe is in an early stage as it scrutinises whether Deutsche Bank’s US operations adequately monitored funds from …