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The feel-good days for global markets at the end of March are firmly over. Everything from stocks to bonds is falling -- even oil has pulled back from near records -- in a concerted cross-asset selloff with echoes of the rate-spurred rout…

After months of turmoil driven by the prospect of tighter Federal Reserve policy, investors this past week confronted a fresh challenge when Russia invaded Ukraine. The geopolitical crisis threatens to crimp economic growth in…

Below are five charts showing where a potential escalation of tensions could be felt across global markets: 1/SAFE HAVENS A major risk event usually sees investors rushing back to bonds, generally seen as the…

The S&P 500 and the Dow touched all-time highs on Thursday, extending a record-setting run as new claims for US unemployment benefits fell in the week, showing…

The Dow dragged Wall Street's main indexes lower on Friday, with travel, bank and commodity-linked stocks bearing the brunt of a selloff triggered by the discovery of…

European stocks gave up early gains on Friday as concerns over the economic damage from fresh COVID-19 lockdowns in the region hammered cyclical sectors such as banks and automakers. The pan-European STOXX 600 index fell 0.3% after hovering…

Thanks to record issuance, the SPAC boom and the pandemic-fueled collapse in buybacks, the supply of equities across the developed world has turned positive for the first time in a decade, according to Sanford C. Bernstein. At $273…