Bloomberg The dollar sinks to its lowest level since May 2018 on concern that the world’s biggest economy will struggle to regain momentum amid a standoff over further virus relief and as infections continue to mount. The greenback has now erased most of the gains it built on the back of US-China trade tensions that started heating up around two …

Bloomberg Oil jumped to a five-month high alongside a surge in US equities as optimism that an economic recovery may be on the horizon lifted hopes for improving fuel demand to follow. Equities in the US, Europe and Asia strengthened, with the S&P 500 Index approaching the highest in months, bolstered by fresh stimulus out of China’s central bank. A …

Bloomberg Tongwei Co halted output at a polysilicon factory in southwest China because of flooding, the latest blow to the solar supply chain that has seen rare cost increases this summer due to disruptions. Tongwei, the world’s No. 3 polysilicon producer last year, said it isn’t clear when the Sichuan province plant will restart, and didn’t say whether it sustained …