Bloomberg Stocks fall with US futures on Monday at the start of a busy week of earnings and policy updates, with China’s widening technology crackdown weighing on risk sentiment. Treasuries rise. Contracts on key US gauges slipped following a record close for Wall Street. European equities fall from an all-time high as carmakers and banks led losses. Shares in China …

Bloomberg Some of the assets most exposed to fears around the spread of the delta variant are luring traders with tempting signals of strength and stability. Emerging-market corporate earnings have outpaced estimates for the first time in 30 months amid an economic rebound in developing nations. Meanwhile, MSCI’s index of emerging currencies remains up this year, defying the declines seen …

Bloomberg The US and China barreled into their first high-level talks since March trading sanctions and rhetorical barbs, raising the stakes for the effort to stabilise strained relations between the world’s two largest economies. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, the US’s No. 2 diplomat, is set to meet Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Monday in Tianjin, about 60 miles …