Bloomberg US equity futures dropped ahead of the latest American jobless data and as President Donald Trump floated cutting ties between the world’s two biggest economies. Treasuries gained alongside the dollar. Contracts on the main US equity benchmarks extended declines after Trump said in a TV interview that he doesn’t want to talk to China’s President Xi Jinping “right now.” ...

Bloomberg India stocks fell, retreating from Wednesday’s biggest gain in almost two weeks, as investors mulled the detail of a government stimulus package aimed at spurring the economy. The S&P BSE Sensex dropped 1.3% to 31,593.08 as of 9:34 am in Mumbai, while the NSE Nifty 50 Index lost 1.2%. Almost half of the $265 billion rescue package — equivalent ...

Bloomberg Yale University’s publicly disclosed US stock portfolio surged in value last quarter as endowment added exchange-traded funds and technology shares during the coronavirus-fuelled market plunge. The endowment’s equities increased to $267.4 million as of the end of March from $62.8 million at the end of last year as Ivy League school greatly expanded its holding in the SPDR S&P ...