Bloomberg One of the world’s top-performing global stock funds is betting against Amazon.com. It’s not so much that Amazon won’t flourish, but that the recent rally in global technology behemoths has made brick-and-mortar retailers cheap in comparison, according to Norwegian fund Storebrand Global Multifactor. The valuations right now are “too pessimistic for the retailers and too optimistic for Internet retailers,” …

Bloomberg A deadline set by India’s central bank to restructure an estimated $52 billion of stressed loans may push dozens more companies into bankruptcy. The Reserve Bank of India in February introduced new rules and a 180-day timeline for banks to recast loans once payments are missed, scrapping previous methods that could take an indefinite amount of time. Companies that …

Bloomberg China’s yuan was stable in the onshore market following Friday’s surge, after the central bank signalled that it’s taking action to support the currency through its daily fixing. Starting this month, banks resumed using an adjustment in the daily pricing of the currency against the dollar, known as the counter-cyclical factor, to mitigate the bias towards a weaker yuan, …

Bloomberg President Xi Jinping’s push to spur lending in his economy stands to benefit Postal Savings Bank of China Ltd., whose ubiquitous green-fronted outlets have been luring deposits across the nation. This branch network, the widest in the world, has become a source of cheap funds for the lender, ensuring it’s better placed than rivals amid the government’s crackdown on …

Bloomberg One under-appreciated indicator is flashing red for some developed markets, Goldman Sachs analysts say. The private-sector financial balance — an economy’s total income minus the spending of all households and businesses — has proven more powerful in predicting crises than the current-account balance, Goldman analysts led by Jan Hatzius, the bank’s global head of economics, wrote in an August …

Bloomberg Pound investors hoping for a turnaround anytime soon could instead face more turbulence. The UK’s and the European Union’s plan to negotiate Brexit continuously from now on suggests there will be more political headlines, potentially fueling volatility, according to strategists at Royal Bank of Canada and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd. With UK markets shut for a …

Bloomberg China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. raised its dividend payout after half-year earnings jumped to a record, fuelled by improving refining profits and a rebound in crude prices that brought its oil and gas exploration unit closer to breaking even. The world’s biggest refiner by capacity, known as Sinopec, proposed an interim dividend of 0.16 yuan a share, a 60 …

Bloomberg Delinquent loans worth as much as 700 billion rupees ($10 billion) in India’s power sector are in the process of being resolved, according to the nation’s largest bank, helping lenders avoid dragging seven accounts to bankruptcy court under new norms laid out by the regulator. State Bank of India identified 34 stressed accounts in the power sector, with dues …

Bloomberg The charts are saying to sell energy shares. Cornerstone Macro Head of Technical Analysis Carter Worth is recommending an underweight on the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 over the past week and a half. Worth said his call comes from analyzing the chart patterns of each of the stocks that compose the Russell 3000 Energy sector. “What we …

Bloomberg Oando Plc is looking to boost crude output from next year as the Nigerian producer breaks the back of a $2.5 billion debt burden built up through the 2014 acquisition of oil and gas assets from US giant ConocoPhillips. The borrowings will be almost 90 percent lower by the third quarter of 2019 and the company is now preparing …