Bloomberg Stocks clung to gains globally along with US equity futures on Wednesday while investors examined government rescue packages to counter the hit from the coronavirus, after one of the best days on Wall Street in a generation. Futures on the three main American equity indexes fluctuated before turning higher in the wake of March 25’s historic surge, after the ...

Bloomberg Investment chiefs at two Indian life insurance companies are keeping money in stocks despite selling by overseas funds that has put the nation’s benchmark index on course for a record monthly decline. The S&P BSE Sensex has plunged 30% so far in March as the coronavirus-led wave of risk aversion has prompted foreign investors to dump local stocks at ...

Bloomberg It is fair to say that short sellers have won this round. These investors, who typically bet on the price of an equity or asset going down, have made a killing amid the broader selloff that has roiled US financial markets for the past month. The time has now come to protect those profits before stocks start potentially rebounding. ...

Bloomberg As the shortage of dollars sweeps the globe, cracks are starting to show up in Asia’s emerging markets, despite the hefty foreign-reserve cushions built up over the years. The squeeze on US currency is putting pressure on emerging Asia debt. Southeast Asian and Indian government and corporate payments are set to jump 67% in 2022 to $41.9 billion, according ...

Bloomberg The amount of cash circulating in the euro area increased last week by the most since October 2008, in the latest sign that the coronavirus pandemic has sparked the biggest economic crunch at least since the global financial crisis. Cash jumped by almost 19 billion euros ($20 billion), according to European Central Bank data. The ECB’s total balance sheet ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s banks will offer broader loan deferrals that will involve 100 billion ringgit ($23 billion) of funds as the country seeks more ways to soften the pandemic’s impact on its economy. Banks will offer six-month deferrals for all loans held by individuals and small businesses and let people convert their credit card debt into a three-year term loan, the ...

Bloomberg India’s central bank is weighing opening a new credit facility for banks aimed at boosting their lending to mutual funds, which have been hit by a flood of redemptions, according to people familiar with the matter. The Reserve Bank of India and finance ministry are in favour of a proposal from the industry regulator to open a cash window ...

Bloomberg Canadian banks are giving their workers extra pay for going into the office or manning branches during the coronavirus pandemic. Most of the country’s biggest lenders are offering an additional C$50 ($34) a day to those employees who aren’t able to work from home. They join US counterparts including Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG cut former Chief Executive Officer Tidjane Thiam’s pay by about 15% in his last year in charge, after the Swiss bank became embroiled in a spying scandal that led to his ouster. “Mr. Thiam has taken accountability for the events and accepted a reduction of his non-financial assessment score,” board member Kai Nargolwala wrote in ...

Bloomberg For at least a decade, experts have been predicting the demise of the big box supermarket as online rivals like Ocado Group Plc muscled in. Giant warehouse-style grocery stores with thousands of products seemed anachronistic in an era when consumers increasingly wanted to shop for fresh, locally produced food, or from the comfort of their living rooms. Now the ...