Bloomberg Asia stocks are not out of the woods yet, despite the recent bear-market rally, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Investors who may be getting optimistic that markets across the region have bottomed should resist that notion, strategists led by Timothy Moe said in a note on Monday. The MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan Index has rebounded some 12% since ...

Bloomberg A slowdown in the growth rate of new US coronavirus cases may help put a floor under stocks and dampen volatility, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. The Cboe Volatility Index has been tracking data associated with the global spread of cases and has shown a relationship with growth at the US state level, technical strategists Jason Hunter and ...

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) cut the amount of cash that some banks have to put aside as reserves, injecting liquidity to encourage lending as the world’s second-largest economy is set for the slowest growth since 1976. The required reserve ratio (RRR) for rural banks and small city commercial banks will be lowered 1 percentage point, the PBOC ...