Bloomberg Oil climbed, erasing an earlier loss, as a landmark plan from consumers to tap their strategic oil reserves was less severe than markets expected. Futures in New York wiped out losses to trade above $77 a barrel after Tuesday’s statement from the White House. While the headline size of the US release is large, a significant chunk of the …

Bloomberg BlackRock Inc is trimming its investments in Indian equities and becoming more optimistic on China on attractive valuations amid expectations that policy hurdles will ease next year. “Valuations are the key right now,” Belinda Boa, head of active investments for Asia Pacific at the world’s biggest asset manager, said at a briefing. “Because of the outperformance we’ve seen in …

Bloomberg US index futures and European stocks fall as investors weighed the prospects of a quicker withdrawal of monetary stimulus and the economic impact of renewed lockdowns. December contracts on the S&P 500 Index falls 0.4% after the underlying gauge posted a last-hour decline. A rout in technology shares that spurred those losses echoed in a 0.6% drop in Nasdaq …