Recently, the S&P 500 ETF SPY traded over $100 billion in volume in a single day. With a .1% financial transactions tax, something that a few US presidential hopefuls had proposed, that volume would have generated $100 million in government revenue. Those types of numbers have lawmakers salivating over the potential to raise untold amounts of money from applying very ...

For travellers intrepid enough to share an aircraft with a group of strangers in the grip of an epidemic, now is a great time for bargains. Americans can get return flights from New York to Miami right now for around $51, Bloomberg News reported earlier. In China, premium budget carrier Juneyao Airlines is offering one-way tickets for the three-and-a-half hour ...

Bloomberg Oil prices crashed, equities plunged and Treasuries soared on Monday as the world headed for a full-blown price war in crude and panic appeared to grip financial markets. In a dramatic start to the week across assets: Futures on the S&P 500 Index fell about 5%, triggering trading curbs designed to limit the most dramatic moves while cash markets ...