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US stocks slip as earnings disappoint; crude slides

Bloomberg US stocks slipped as the latest results from major banks disappointed. Treasuries were little changed with the dollar. The S&P 500 Index halted a three-day advance as Goldman Sachs Group Inc retreated after missing estimates for sales and trading revenue. Citigroup Inc was little changed after its revenue matched expectations. The benchmark for American equities is near a six-month ...

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Sensex rebounds from weekly fall on results

Bloomberg Indian equities rose, with key indexes rebounding from a weekly decline, on better-than-expected earnings at the nation’s biggest software exporter and a weather office outlook that predicted a near-normal rainfall this year. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex gained 0.4 percent to 38,905.84 in Mumbai, more than recouping last week’s 0.2 percent decline, its first weekly drop in eight. The ...

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Fed hints at another side of good-news story on US jobs

Bloomberg It began as an inquest into what went wrong. Now the Federal Reserve’s policy rethink may be widening to include the part the central bank thought it had gotten right. Inflation keeps falling short of the Fed’s target, and that was the trigger for what’s supposed to be a months-long review of strategy. Now, policy makers are being drawn ...

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