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A global pandemic, racial strife, political upheaval — and a rising stock market amid the chaos. While it sounds a lot like 2020 it also has echoes all the way from 1968. Both years featured history-making levels of tumult, and.

How can a company be doing worse open than when it is closed? That’s the puzzle presented on Monday by the latest round of purchasing managers index readings across the globe, showing still depressed conditions. The IHS Markit eurozone manufacturing.

Even with the risk of a hard Brexit hanging over their heads, pound traders seem to be looking the other way. The currency touched a three-week high against a weaker dollar, one day before fraught trade negotiations resume between London.

Russia is preparing to provide hospitals with a coronavirus drug developed with the sovereign wealth fund’s backing after gaining initial approval from the Health Ministry amid a global race to find safe and effective treatments for Covid-19. The medicine will.

The U.S. stock market has been mostly indifferent about dire unemployment figures and plummeting consumer spending. Investors are willing to look past the terrible data because they’re expected to improve considerably as the economy continues to reopen. But new data.

Grayscale Investments has been gobbling up Bitcoin in recent months, and most of its investors are institutions — but other funds are doing it, too. While the theater world has Waiting for Godot, the crypto sphere has its own drama:.

Oil fell on Monday on worries about renewed tensions between the United States and China, although reports that OPEC and Russia were closer to a deal on extending oil output cuts lent some support to prices. Benchmark Brent crude was.

Goldman Sachs has begun to establish short positions on the dollar as the reopening of economies is expected to lure investors out of the traditional safe-haven currency. In a note over the weekend, Goldman strategists said that while they had.

This week, oil may return to investors’ focus, on par with the U.S. labour market. This data promises to shed light on how active the real recovery in consumer demand is in the United States and across the world. The.

The dollar extended its slide against a surging euro on Friday, hurt by month-end flows and as the common currency continued to enjoy a boost from the European Union’s recently announced plan to prop up the bloc’s coronavirus-hit economies with.

U.S. consumer spending plunged in April by the most on record as widespread government lockdowns largely prevented Americans from spending federal stimulus payments in the month. Household outlays fell 13.6% from the prior month, the sharpest drop in more than.

April data on personal spending and income in the United States showed a very wary mood of the Americans. A recent publication notes revenue growth of 10.5% in April (vs -7% expected) after a decrease of 2.2% in March. But.