Bloomberg US stocks remained down after recovering from steeper early losses, while European and Asian equities slumped. Treasuries and the dollar stabilised. Oil fell and copper rose. The S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average each fell more than 1 percent at the open on Monday, before a rally in utility and consumer shares pulled them back up somewhat. …

Reuters Most Middle Eastern stock markets fell on Monday in line with a weak global trend, with Saudi Arabia seeing profit-taking in cement shares, but Egypt rose on the back of several blue chips, The region had already dropped on Sunday in response to Wall Street’s plunge on February 2, so Gulf markets far outperformed other bourses in Asia, where …

Bloomberg The Bank of England’s (BoE) first policy meeting of the year is also the first test of the market’s newly aggressive interest-rate forecasts that emerged in recent weeks. Investors have ramped up bets that the follow-up to November’s tightening — the first in a decade — will come as soon as May, and economists in the latest Bloomberg survey …