Bloomberg Looking for the smart money in equities these days? Try taking a peek at your next-door neighbour’s portfolio. A basket of the 50 most-popular stocks among individual investors has rallied 13% this year, compared with an 8.7% gain for a gauge of hedge fund favourites, data compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc show. While both exceed the benchmark S&P …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co is broadening its perspective on blockchain technology to show how digital money will change the financial world. The emergence of linked databases like the blockchains that enable Bitcoin and Ether to exist as well as changing consumer preferences has turned the modernisation of payments into a global theme, the New York-based bank said in a …

Bloomberg Brigita, a director at one of China’s largest car dealers, is running out of options. Her firm’s 100 outlets have been closed for about a month because of the coronavirus, cash reserves are dwindling and banks are reluctant to extend deadlines on billions of yuan in debt coming due over the next few months. There are also other creditors …