Bloomberg UK house prices rise at the slowest pace in more than six months in January after a bumper end to 2021 left the average value of a home at a record high. Prices rise just 0.3% following four months of gains above 1%, mortgage lender Halifax said on Monday. In a sign of a more normal market, the …

  Bloomberg Chinese shares climbed on their return from a weeklong holiday, with sentiment boosted by Friday’s jump in Hong-Kong listed names and easing concerns about regulatory headwinds for the nation’s battered tech sector. The CSI 300 Index ended up 1.5% on Monday after rising as much as 2.4%. While that marked the benchmark’s best post-Lunar New Year holiday performance …

  Bloomberg Stocks in Europe trimmed gains and US index futures dipped as investors took stock of the outlook for monetary policy ahead of key inflation data later this week. Treasury yields and the dollar were stable. The Stoxx Europe 600 index, coming off its longest streak of weekly losses in almost a year, was up around 0.3%, with retail …