By Noel Randewich and Lewis Krauskopf (Reuters) -Wall Street’s “AI trade” has propelled the market to record highs this year, and Oracle’s stunning share-price gains are giving investors another reason to back the trade. Oracle shares jumped 36% on Wednesday after the company pointed to a demand surge from AI firms for its cloud services….
(Bloomberg) — Global investors dived into the riskiest assets after a benign US inflation report dispelled fears of stagflation and lifted a roadblock for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates. Stocks jumped to fresh record highs, and small-cap stocks, emerging-markets and semiconductors extended a rally. Measures of implied volatility plunged even as President Donald…
(Bloomberg) — US stock futures retreated Friday as American trade partners pushed for concessions ahead of a July 9 deadline to finalize trade deals with the Trump administration. Meanwhile OPEC+ delegates meeting tomorrow will consider an increase of more than 411,000 barrels a day in August. Most Read from Bloomberg Contracts for the US benchmark…
Hong Kong’s equity markets are finally waking upand the numbers speak for themselves. IPO and follow-on deal volume has surged to $26.5 billion so far in 2025, up from just $3.8 billion a year ago. That’s the highest total since 2021. Chinese giants are fueling the revival. CATL led with a $5 billion listing in…
U.S. futures were up this morning in early trading after the S&P 500 rose 2% on Thursday. That’s nice, but the broader global markets have spoken loud and clear ever since President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement on trade tariffs: Most Asian markets have performed way better than Western ones. Some, like Japan’s TOPIX, are even…
STORY: Trump, in his first term, was so focused on equity markets that “he might even change his public statements to try and support market levels,” Mulberry said. The S&P 500 rose more than 50% from the time Trump won the election in November of 2016 through the end of his first term. “Obviously, over…
Published: March 6, 2025 at 6:00 a.m. ET Investors got what they wanted on Wednesday — temporary tariff relief from the Trump administration that finally halted a two-day selloff that sent the stock market into a tailspin earlier this week. However, so-called reciprocal tariffs on foreign imports from all major U.S. trading partners are still coming in…
Published: March 3, 2025 at 5:02 p.m. ET U.S. stocks endured another serious setback on Monday as what one trader described as a tariff “tape bomb” from President Donald Trump caused the S&P 500 to tally its biggest daily drop in months. After a rocky month that saw the Nasdaq Composite COMP fall sharply from its…
Published: March 3, 2025 at 12:50 p.m. ET Options traders are bracing for a looming stock-market crash, the latest data from Cboe Global Markets show. A dispatch from Cboe Global Markets’ Mandy Xu, shared with MarketWatch on Monday, revealed that demand for deep out-of-the-money call options tied to the Cboe Volatility Index VIX — otherwise known…
Foreign investors could become more confident about equity markets in Hong Kong and mainland China if enhancements were made to the Stock Connect programme, a financial industry group said, amid a rally driven by hopes for a policy shift from Beijing and enthusiasm about innovation in the technology sector. Lyndon Chao, managing director of the…