Bloomberg Pound bears who have made the British currency the worst performer among developed nations in 2016, will have a raft of economic data and a Bank of England policy statement next week to help them assess whether gloom is still justified. Bulls retreated, as sterling snapped a three-week gain versus the dollar that was driven by easing concern …

  Bloomberg Government bonds from the euro region’s so-called peripheral nations may further underperform German securities with a banking crisis in Italy and political gridlock in Spain far from being resolved. While euro-area sovereign bonds are supported by the European Central Bank’s €80 billion ($91 billion) a month asset-purchase program, domestic solvency worries are back in focus. Even as Italian …

Paris / AFP Standard and Poor’s upgraded its outlook for Turkey’s credit rating, judging the prospects for the nation’s economy to be stable despite political instability that may dampen growth and reform plans. The end to the negative outlook on the BB+ foreign currency rating, one rung below an investment grade, came a day after President RecepTayyipErdogan’s plans to consolidate …