Bloomberg Investors will soon discover if Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index will undertake one of the biggest overhauls in its 51-year history, a move that would impact tens of billions of dollars in funds tracking the stock benchmark. On Monday, Hang Seng Indexes Co. will offer its conclusion after an industry consultation over proposed measures to the city’s stock benchmark, …

Bloomberg US regulators are engaging in the stock market’s version of whack-a-mole — racing to suspend shares of companies with dubious prospects that have been hyped to the moon on social media. In a statement, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said it temporarily halted trading in 15 companies due to concerns that their stock prices were artificially inflated. One …

Bloomberg The decline of Angola, from being Africa’s top crude producer five years ago to barely pumping more than war-torn Libya, shows the heavy toll of a slump in oil-industry investment. The nation’s production has fallen by more than a third since 2015, when international oil companies started slashing investment in response to a plunge in crude prices. Despite government …