US Futures Point to Fall Amid Trade Worries

U.S. stocks looked set to follow Asian markets lower Monday amid global trade tensions and concerns over the tech sector. … —Megumi Fujikawa, Stella Yifan Xie, Yantoultra Ngui and Manju Dalal contributed to this article. … An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that it was a three-year high.

Shares of companies listed on the frontier market are among the world’s top performers in the first quarter as investors bet on the country’s economic recovery following the defeat of Islamic State. The three-year war destroyed parts of the country’s infrastructure, leaving many businesses struggling.

U.S. stock futures dropped after an early equity rally petered out in Asia, where volume was low as many markets across the world remain closed for the Easter holiday. … Focus this week will turn to U.S. labor market data Friday, which is expected to show unemployment fall to its lowest level since 2000.

The Saudi stock benchmark advanced to the highest since 2015 last week before FTSE Russell said it’s classifying the country as a secondary emerging market, with actual inclusion set to happen in stages starting a year from now. MSCI Inc., which has more investors tracking its emerging-market indexes, …

U.S. companies have been bulking up on debt, introducing another wild card into financial markets already rattled by the recent tech selloff and the prospect of rising interest rates. One slice of the high-grade corporate bond universe is fast becoming the epicenter of these concerns. There is $2.5 trillion in …

Emerging-market stocks beat peers from developed nations in the first quarter as investors tangled with an escalation in trade tensions, a jump in bond yields and bank-funding costs, and a sell-off in technology stocks. And investors, strategists and traders remain bullish on emerging assets for the rest of …

The euro, yen and some emerging-market currencies, meanwhile, are up in 2018. A drop in the dollar’s value over the past year has had broad implications, which would likely intensify if the U.S. currency’s decline continues. A weaker dollar helps make U.S. goods more competitive abroad, boosting profits …

Index compiler FTSE Russell announced late Wednesday that the kingdom’s local exchange, the Tadawul, will be classified as a secondary emerging market in March next year, joining a group of countries that includes Russia and China. The Tadawul is set to have a weight of 2.7% in the FTSE Emerging …

Investors enter the second quarter with an apprehensive mind-set, reflecting both the sharp late-March retreat of once-favored technology shares and increasing concern about the impact of rising interest rates on market valuations and volatility. Some of last year’s most enduring trades wobbled toward the …

U.S. equities surged back from the biggest weekly rout in two years, with major benchmarks climbing more than 2.7 percent on signs that an escalation of trade tensions was beginning to ease. Chipmakers and banks led gains as the S&P 500 Index posted its biggest one-day jump since August 2015, while …

For two years traders bemoaned the tranquility in global equity markets. That era just ended in a fit of turbulence, as stocks plunged into the first correction since early 2016 and volatility almost doubled from historically low levels over the past three months. Dip buying no longer worked, and holding tight on …

So far, 2018’s huge dispersion in asset-lass returns defies any “catch-all theme,” they wrote, though “the cleaner link between macro trends and markets may explain why only bond managers seem to have generated much alpha this year.” JPMorgan sees potential for “idiosyncratic” catalysts in the coming …

Authorities started a series of measures last year to update infrastructure for equities trading with the goal of stirring international interest in the market and jolting into life a large portion of its shares that barely move each day. The benchmark that’s in place now has 156 members. On any given day, at least …

Technology shares have suffered the most from investor jitters this month after leading much of the bull-market charge in global equities during the past few years. Pressure is growing on the stocks amid speculation about a regulatory crackdown related to data privacy and antitrust concerns, U.S. threats to …

However, the broad tariff threat against China (with details coming) is a different thing entirely. China already has made explicit how it will counter, and its reactions could significantly hit the U.S. economy and many companies. (See author’s article, “Trump Crossed Two Red Lines, So Expect Stock Market …

It’s taken a quarter of a century, but China finally has its own oil futures. At 9 a.m. local time on Monday, crude contracts began trading on the Shanghai International Energy Exchange. Futures for September settlement opened at 440 yuan a barrel, up from a reference price of 416 yuan. The world’s biggest …

Two firms have the job of keeping Spotify’s listing from going off the rails: adviser Morgan Stanley and Citadel Securities, which the company selected as its designated market maker. DMMs help ensure the orderly trading of NYSE-listed stocks and make money by quoting prices throughout the trading day …

“We need some market stability at this point and hopefully we get to some calmer waters.” The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose for a third day, with automakers leading the way after Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. were said to be in talks to merge. Stocks were mixed in Asia. Elsewhere, West Texas oil rallied …

The clobbering that tech shares have taken in recent days has magnified not only how influential these companies have become in people’s everyday lives, but how much sway they have gained in global stock markets. Investors are concerned that the tech giants have grown so much and so fast in recent …

Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is working on a plan to list on a stock exchange in its home market, China, according to people familiar with the matter, more than three years after its blockbuster initial public offering in New York. Alibaba is evaluating ways in which its shares could be traded by …

In a stock market that’s been floundering ever since it hit record highs in late January, the prospect of a widening trade spat only added to jitters. Traders had already been bracing for the possibility of slowing growth as the Federal Reserve reiterated its commitment to further interest-rate increases after …

In particular, some of those who worried about Amazon’s reach have circulated a January 2017 article in Yale Law Journal, “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” by … Her basic argument is that antitrust framework has moved from looking at marketstructure to consumer welfare, something that has led Amazon to …

LONDON—Banks raised their forecasts for oil prices for the sixth month in a row in March, in a sign they expect draining crude inventories and rising geopolitical risks to global supply to further balance the market in the coming months. Brent crude—the global benchmark—is now expected to average $63 a …

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ’s Cliff Tan explains how President Trump’s trade tariffs are affecting stock markets. … of the tit-for-tat trade tariffs between the world’s two largest economies that investors have feared since Donald Trump’s presidential-election win is now reverberating across financial markets.

In the developing world, emerging-market consumers are buying more clothes than ever — especially used clothes. However, this demand isn’t just about the cheap price of used clothing. It’s about quality. In Ghana, where I’ve spent time over the last two years, imported secondhand clothes are often more …

Thirteen years after it was created to limit carbon-dioxide emissions, prices for the allowances are rising. European Union policymakers have enacted measures expected to keep the cost of pollution on an upward trajectory through 2030, prompting hedge funds that abandoned the market to pile back in.

China, the world’s biggest oil buyer, is opening a domestic market to trade futures contracts. It’s been planning one for years, only to encounter delays. The Shanghai International Energy Exchange, a unit of Shanghai Futures Exchange, will be known by the acronym INE and will allow Chinese buyers to …

Technology shares dragged down stock indexes, jolting investors who have rallied behind a handful of the hot tech companies and raising fresh questions about the resiliency of a nine-year-old bull market in U.S. stocks. Together, Facebook , Amazon.com , Netflix and Google parent Alphabet—young firms …

Because the deal had generated interest far in excess of the 36 million shares being offered, Dropbox executives weren’t overly concerned about the market’s wobbles. Still, they erred on the side of caution. Dropbox considered pricing the IPO as high as $22 a share but, in part because of the selloff, …