Roper Technologies Inc.’s stock slide now looks like unfair punishment. The $30 billion company, which makes software for construction companies and legal firms as well as meter-reading tools, had slumped 11 percent in the month leading up to the release of its third-quarter results on October 26. That matched the decline in the S&P 500 Industrials index, which has been ...

Amundi SA, already Europe’s biggest fund manager, is on course to meet its self-imposed target of swelling assets under management by a net 50 billion euros ($57 billion) per year. Its cost-to-income ratio is best-in-class. And yet its shares dropped 6 percent on October 26 to their lowest level since March 2017. While asset growth decelerated in the third quarter ...

Mario Draghi has a fine line to walk at last week’s press conference after the meeting of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) governing council. Bond investors will be watching closely to see how the ECB president responds to questions about Italy, and if there’s anything to be gleaned about whether future policy might be good or bad for the country’s ...