Stocks are ending the first quarter of 2025 near their lows of the year. President Trump’s tariffs have been a major driver of the recent market sell-off, with the S&P 500 falling 5.75% in March alone. But now, with Trump’s “Liberation Day” on April 2 fast approaching and investors expecting to hear more details about…
After the best two-year stretch for the S&P 500 (^GSPC) since the late 1990s, few on Wall Street are calling for an end to the bull market run, and this optimism serves as the key throughline in the fourth edition of Yahoo Finance’s Chartbook. The fourth volume of the Yahoo Finance Chartbook shows a clear…
China’s plan to draw long-term capital into its stock market, as a stabilising measure amid escalating tensions with the US, could drive net inflows from insurers, mutual funds and social-security funds to 1.7 trillion yuan (US$236.2 billion) this year, according to UBS. Insurance funds’ allocations to Chinese equities could rise steadily amid falling bond yields,…
(Bloomberg) — Wall Street brokerages have turned more cautious on Chinese stocks as persistent deflationary pressures and geopolitical tensions cloud the outlook for earnings in the world’s second-largest equity market. Most Read from Bloomberg Morgan Stanley strategists reduced Chinese equities to a slight underweight within the region, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trimmed its index…
(Bloomberg) — China is weighing plans for a stock stabilization fund, and will unleash at least 800 billion yuan ($113 billion) of initial liquidity support for its beleaguered equity market. Mainland and Hong Kong shares jumped. Most Read from Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China will set up a swap facility allowing securities firms, funds…