Bloomberg Persistent inflation could trigger more spells when bonds and equities move in tandem, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co analysts, posing a headache for investors who use fixed-income securities to shelter some of their portfolios from stock-market drops. The bond-market selloff in September coincided with the S&P 500 shedding 4.8%, a lockstep move that battered multi-asset investors. A basket ...

Bloomberg Peru tightened monetary policy for a third straight month after inflation surged to its highest rate in 12 years and political volatility roiled the currency. The central bank lifted its benchmark rate half a percentage point, to 1.5%, matching the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg. It was the third consecutive rate hike by the bank led by ...

Bloomberg Thousands of users of Facebook Inc’s main social network and Instagram photo-sharing app reported having trouble accessing the services for a short stretch midday, the second time in a week they were out of reach for a wide swath of people. More than an hour after apologising for the outages, Instagram said on Twitter that the situation was resolved. ...