Bloomberg Voracious cash appetite among virus-strapped companies and a battered economy that makes buybacks tough to justify are warping supply and demand dynamics in the stock market, something for bulls to worry about heading into year end. While American firms normally repurchase way more stock than they sell, this year has been different, as offerings by everyone from Snowflake Inc …

Bloomberg While Bitcoin’s record-high grabs attention, its crypto compatriot Ethereum is continuing to broaden its appeal beyond the software programming crowd. Before this year, most investors’ first stop was Bitcoin, according to Michael Sonnenshein, managing director at Grayscale Investments LLC, which has investment products that track both and allows investments from institutional and accredited investors only. But the Ethereum blockchain, …

Bloomberg Oil rose for a fifth straight week with support from an Opec+ deal and hopes for another round of US stimulus. Futures in New York and London closed at fresh nine-month highs, with signs that momentum is building towards a fiscal stimulus plan that could provide an immediate demand boost, before a vaccine is widely available. Prices had already …