Bloomberg Talks to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) will resume in Washington with a focus on dairy as the US pressures Canada to strike a deal by Friday, a US official familiar with the negotiations said. Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to visit the Washington office of US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. This week’s Nafta …

Bloomberg US stocks plowed to new records, with technology shares pacing gains, as investors speculated the Trump administration will make progress on trade spats. The pound rallied after the European Union revived hopes of a Brexit deal before the UK exits the common area in March. The S&P 500 Index jumped past 2,900, a level it first breached on Tuesday, …

Bloomberg Chinese investors have dumped Hong Kong stocks at a record clip this month, as the city’s equity benchmark tumbled to its lowest in a year. Mainland investors sold net HK$25.4 billion ($3.2 billion) of Hong Kong equities in August through Tuesday, according to Bloomberg calculations based on daily turnover data. That’s the biggest monthly selling figure since China opened …