Bloomberg US futures edged higher while most Asian stocks climbed as investors digested the unexpectedly strong jobs report. Bonds steadied from earlier losses. S&P 500 futures rise 0.1%, adding to last week’s gains when payrolls data showed US employers added the most jobs in seven months. Treasuries pulled back from a selloff last week, with the benchmark 10-year yield steadying ...

Bloomberg The prospect of tax hikes may not have derailed gains in US stocks yet, but 100 years of data say the market is far from impervious to them. Stocks can take a hit when rates rise on corporations and individuals, according to Julian Emanuel, chief equity and derivatives strategist at BTIG LLC. He sees 13 such instances, most recently ...

Bloomberg Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest pension pot, considers the impact of its investments on markets and isn’t distorting the country’s stocks, said Hirohide Yamaguchi, the newly appointed chairman of the fund’s board of governors. Yamaguchi, a former deputy governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), said also that it was important to look at the ...