Bloomberg Indian stocks rose, rebounding from their steepest drop in more than a month, according to reports. The S&P BSE Sensex Index added 1.2% to 32,108.35 as of 9:37 am in Mumbai, and the NSE Nifty 50 Index advanced by the same magnitude. Both gauges lost more than 5% as a nationwide lockdown was extended. The regional MSCI Asia Pacific …

Bloomberg Carson Block is predicting a plunge in stocks after they roared back from the coronavirus sell-off in March. “The direction has to be sharply downward,” the renowned short seller and founder of Muddy Waters Capital said. Block finds it hard to believe equities are trading at their current valuations even though demand has been “crushed” by the virus and …

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) received approval for 265,500 small-business loans totaling $24.9 billion in relief funds from the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program. Since the program reopened on April 27, the bank has sent 213,000 promissory notes to small businesses informing them that their loans were approved by the SBA, Bank of America said Monday in a …