Bloomberg The rally in global stock markets extended into a third day on Wednesday as companies from Amazon.com Inc. to Vodafone Group Plc posted strong results and the retail-trading frenzy subsided. The Stoxx 600 Index climbed 0.7%, with most sectors in the green as corporate results rolled in. Italian stocks and bonds surged after Mario Draghi, the former European Central ...

Bloomberg GameStop Corp. shares continued their rapid fall back toward earth on Wednesday, with last week’s massive peak becoming a distant memory. The stock listed on Germany’s Tradegate venue falls to $71.99, implying a drop of about 20% from Tuesday’s New York closing price of $90. GameStop, the poster child for Redditors looking to squeeze short sellers, plunged 60%, and ...

Bloomberg South Korea bowed to pressure from its increasingly dominant retail investors and extended its pandemic-imposed ban on short-selling until May 2. The ban, which had been scheduled to expire on March 15 — a year after it was put on place — will be lifted on May 3 for stocks on the benchmark Kospi 200 Index and the small-cap ...