Bloomberg Stocks rose and Treasuries fell as a lull in the trade war gave investors room to focus on the start of the earnings season. The S&P 500 Index gained for a fourth day, the longest streak since the beginning of June. PepsiCo Inc. jumped more than 3 percent after reporting better-than-forecast profit, bolstering optimism that Corporate America enjoyed a …

Bloomberg At a time when emerging markets have been roughed up by trade tensions between the world’s biggest economies, the earnings picture in India is improving. That’s the message from Morgan Stanley as it expects companies in the S&P BSE Sensex to report a 23 percent increase in net income in the June quarter from a year earlier, with more …

Bloomberg The natural gas industry is on a mission to prove it can keep up with the green energy industry, whose price reductions are starting to become a competitive threat to fossil fuels. Gas and oil producers have slashed overheads by a third since 2014 and are finding deeper reductions harder to come by, according to energy consultants Wood Mackenzie. …