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Bloomberg The Brexit Party has more support in the UK ahead of this month’s EU elections than the Conservatives and Labour combined, according to an Opinium survey for the Observer newspaper. The party, fronted by Nigel Farage and founded only last month, would take 34 percent of the vote in the May 23 election, compared with 21 percent for Labour ...

Have US and Chinese trade negotiators been meeting with each other in recent months, or with bands of convincing impostors? You almost have to ask the question, because media reports about who “broke the deal” over the past week seem to have been filed from two different universes. In a Reuters report and attributed principally to three US government sources, ...

Singaporeans may be in line for some good news. The central bank’s decision to transfer S$45 billion ($33 billion) to the island’s sovereign wealth fund could push back an increase in the consumption tax. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said in a statement that foreign-exchange reserves of S$404 billion are more than it needs to manage the local dollar ...

Unlike some of his peers, UniCredit SpA Chief Executive Officer Jean Pierre Mustier can’t be faulted for wavering. In his three years on the job, he has sold assets and cut costs to put Italy’s largest bank on a more solid footing. He now faces a much harder task: finding growth. While the headline first-quarter results the lender were the ...

The UK has been a leader in the fight against climate change, reducing its carbon dioxide emissions by more than 40 percent from 1990 levels. Now the government’s Committee on Climate Change wants to set a far higher goal: net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. Although short of what climate activists in London have lately been demanding, this target is still ...

Hong Kong’s stock exchange is poised to lose its crown as the world’s leading IPO fundraising venue again, and this time there may be no easy way back. The bourse trails in third place behind the Nasdaq and New York exchanges so far this year, having topped the global rankings in three out of four years between 2015 and 2018. ...

Good things come to those who wait. If you’re a Commerzbank AG shareholder, that could be a very, very long time. The German lender is midway through a revamp that aims to revive profitability, in part, by gaining customers. On May 8, Commerzbank showed it has been steadily winning those new clients. But it’s still far from clear whether the ...

Even before markets opened last week, President Donald Trump set the tone with a pair of tweets that threatened additional tariffs on China and lamented that a trade deal was coming along “too slowly.” Instinctively, investors’ eyes were glued to the S&P 500 Index, watching to see whether it would tumble from its recent record levels. The benchmark hung tough ...

Bloomberg All it took was two lunchtime tweets, sandwiched between posts complaining about the results of the Kentucky Derby and another gripe about “Angry Democrats,” for investors around the world to rip up their playbooks for 2019. What has replaced those playbooks now that US President Donald Trump has made good on his Twitter threats to boost tariffs on $200 ...

Bloomberg Bitcoin surged more than $1,000 this weekend to the highest level since August, as cryptocurrencies extended their rebound from a slump last month amid the New York attorney general’s investigation of a key part of the market. Bitcoin rose as much as 6.9 percent to $7,445, before trading at $7,323.86 in Hong Kong on Sunday, according to Bitstamp. All ...