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Uncover your eyes. There’s no China car crash

Calm down, the world’s biggest car market isn’t going to drive off a cliff. Sales to dealerships in China fell for a third month in September, dropping almost 12 percent from a year earlier, data showed. Retail sales declined 13 percent. Total vehicle sales could now be on track for their first annual drop in more than two decades. Scary ...

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Stocks fall as confidence fades; dollar advances

Bloomberg US stocks fell as the week’s second big serving of corporate earnings did much less to reassure bulls than the previous day’s almost uniformly strong reports. The dollar and Treasuries rose. The S&P 500 Index slid back below 2,800, heading for a second loss in three days. IBM’s disappointing results dragged the Dow Jones Industrial Average lower by more ...

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Dark deals jump on softer MiFID rules

Bloomberg Europe’s dark pools are filling up with equities again as some trading bans imposed under the MiFID II rules get lifted. About 8 percent of all equities trading took place on private stock markets known as dark venues in the past month, after regulators ended suspensions on nearly half of the previously affected stocks, according to a Bloomberg calculation ...

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