Bloomberg Unfazed by the stock market’s bumpy start to the year, strategists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc to UBS Global Wealth Management reiterated their bullish calls on bets that equities can weather higher interest rates and rising bond yields. “The selloff in some long duration high quality names might be overdone soon,” Goldman strategists led by Cecilia Mariotti wrote …

  Bloomberg Oil rises as traders looked ahead to clues on US stockpiles, while monitoring China’s efforts to contain the spread of Omicron. West Texas Intermediate added 0.9% after capping a two-day drop. The industry-funded American Petroleum Institute releases its weekly report on US inventories. Nationwide holdings have sunk for the past six weeks to the lowest since September, official …

  Bloomberg Covid-19 flare-ups, diminished policy support, and lingering supply-chain bottlenecks will see the global economic recovery cool more than previously estimated in 2022, after last year’s expansion clocked the fastest post-recession pace in eight decades, the World Bank said. Global gross domestic product will probably increase 4.1% this year, less than a 4.3% forecast in June, the Washington-based development …