Bloomberg US stocks tumbled to a 19-month low as the turmoil in Washington kept investors on edge after the worst week for American equities in almost a decade. The S&P 500 slid for a fourth straight day, edging ever closer to a bear market as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin unnerved investors by calling a crisis meeting with financial regulators. The …

Bloomberg Indian stocks declined for a third day in holiday-thinned trading as the threat of slower global growth and its impact on corporate earnings added to uncertainty at the end of a tough year. The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 0.8 percent to 35,470.15 in Mumbai, with bulk of the losses coming in the last hour of the session. Volumes were …

Bloomberg Financial-market turbulence is supposed to be a good thing for Wall Street trading desks — not so this quarter. Banks are struggling to capitalise on tumult across stock, bond and currency markets, in part because many investors are staying on sidelines as year-end approaches. Another culprit: dramatic but short-lived swings in asset prices that are striking some of their …