Bloomberg The partial US-China trade agreement is a “game changer” for technology stocks, at least according to one analyst. The deal announced by President Trump in the last hour of trading points to “brighter days” in relations between the two countries and makes it unlikely the US will follow through with the more than $160 billion in tariffs slated to …

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve said it will begin buying $60 billion of Treasury bills per month to improve its control over the benchmark interest rate it uses to guide monetary policy after turmoil rocked money markets in September. The central bank, in a statement, stressed that “these actions are purely technical measures to support the effective implementation” of interest-rate policy …

Bloomberg China’s central bank has clarified the definition of standard assets in the nation’s $14.1 trillion investment-product industry as it moves toward an enforcement deadline. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) published draft rules to define what qualifies as standard credit assets. These assets refer to fixed-income securities, including government bonds, central bank bills, corporate bonds, debt financing instruments of …