Stocks Rally on Upbeat Outlook; Dollar Pares Drop: Markets Wrap

Strong economic indicators seem to have given fresh impetus to the nine-year-old bull market in global equities, which was roiled in recent weeks as President Donald Trump raised the prospect of a full-fledged trade war. With a slew of data due from China this week as well as readings on U.S. inflation …

Hong Kong’s Red-Hot Housing Market Shows No Signs of Cooling. By. Frederik Balfour. @Frederikbalfour More stories by Frederik Balfour. March 11, 2018, 8:37 PM PDT. All 750 units offered in Kowloon project sold at the weekend. Hong Kong secondary housing prices have climbed 4% this year. Demand in Hong Kong’s …

Blackstone recorded an annualized internal rate of return of about 30 percent on its India private equity investments since 2011, the highest among its marketsworldwide, according to the person. It booked about 25 percent returns in China during the period, the person said, asking not to be identified …

To a market already wrestling hesitantly with rising inflation, rising bond yields and the end of an era of global central-bank stimulus, add another contestant: A flurry of uncertain geopolitics. President Donald Trump on Thursday launched global tariffs on steel and aluminum and signaled that more …

During the height of February’s stock swoon, senior investors at a regular strategy pow-wow concluded a new regime for markets was taking shape, after nearly two years of steadily rising asset prices and low volatility spawned a not-too-hot, not-too-cool trading environment likened to the 19th-century fairy …

From China to Peru, emerging-market investors face a week of tumult as a trade war looms and faint sprouts of peace emerge on the Korean peninsula. Russia is in focus as traders gauge the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to impose levies on steel and aluminum. To spice things up, …

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 …

Netflix is reportedly in late-stage negotiations to pay Obama and wife, Michelle, for exclusive content to air on Netflix. Although details about the format and content of the show are scarce, sources familiar with the discussions say the Obamas are potentially interested in highlighting inspirational stories.

Investors are latching onto bitcoin as a new indicator for determining whether the stock market is headed for another downturn. A number of traders said they started paying closer attention to the highly volatile digital currency after it suffered a sharp fall about a month before the global stock market decline.

While the producer group complied with a pledge to curb output and ease a glut in 2017, U.S. flows that are gaining a bigger slice of the prized Asian market may prompt some nations to boost supplies, said Warren Patterson, a commodities strategist at the Dutch bank. The resulting fallout could drag down …