Bloomberg Stocks pared earlier gains as shares of Apple and Asia-based suppliers slumped after President Donald Trump insisted his trade war with China will spur more manufacturing jobs in the US. The S&P 500 opened higher, breaking a four-day slide, before pulling back from the day’s highs. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index fluctuated in early trading before finding its feet …

Bloomberg The pound rallied and gilts fell after the European Union’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said it’s “realistic” to get a Brexit deal within eight weeks. Sterling jumped as much as one percent as Barnier said an agreement is possible by the start of November, though several issues were still outstanding in the talks. That includes measures to prevent the …

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. models are signaling that some developing-nation currencies have further to fall, even after a slide unprecedented since the financial crisis. While this year’s sell-off has pushed emerging-market exchange rates into undervalued territory by at least one measure, they are not yet as cheap as in early 2016, analysts at the investment bank including Mark Ozerov …