Bloomberg After the biggest loss for 60/40 portfolios since the global financial crisis, better days may lie ahead for the trillion-dollar complex of balanced investment strategies. Amid optimism that inflation has peaked, more than 60% of 610 respondents to the latest MLIV Pulse survey are betting stocks and bonds will move in opposite directions this year — re-establishing a …

  Bloomberg US futures rise with stocks as signs of China’s recovery and resilience in Europe stoked optimism about the global economy. Treasuries and the dollar also gained. Contracts on all three major US gauges gained more than 1%, signalling a strong start to the first day of trading on Wall Street this year. Tesla Inc. dropped 4.1% in premarket …

  Bloomberg International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva warned that the global economy faces “a tough year, tougher than the year we leave behind.” “We expect one-third of the world economy to be in recession,” Georgieva told CBS’s ‘Face the Nation’ in an interview aired January 1. “Why? Because the three big economies — US, EU, China — …