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January 16, 2025

Japan’s Retail Investors Begin 2025 With Rush Into Stocks

(Bloomberg) -- Individual Japanese investors welcomed the first trading week of the year by snapping up the largest amount of the nation’s stocks in nine months.Most Read from BloombergThese Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyNYC Commuters Get New Way to Dodge Traffic: $95 Helicopter RidesWill Americans Ever Lose Their Taste for Telework?Scaramucci, Ackman Donate to Whitney Tilson’s NYC Mayoral RunIn a City of Sprawl, Wildfire Evacuation Is Getting HarderUndeterred by declines o

January 16, 2025

Analysis-Investors strap in for prolonged pain in debt-scarred UK markets

Investors who had been enjoying a brief rebound in long-suffering UK markets are hunkering down for a stretch of losses as ructions in the pound, government bonds and stocks feed on each other and put Britain at risk of a wave of hedge fund attacks. As global borrowing costs rise in a trend led by the U.S. Treasury market, the UK's high-debt, low-growth economy that just months ago appeared to be shrugging off years of post-Brexit gloom is now viewed as vulnerable to capital flight. Traders now expect months of volatility for the pound, which ended 2024 as the top-performing major currency against the dollar due to optimism that the Labour Party's landslide July election win marked the end of years of political instability.

January 16, 2025

The job market gloom that signals a looming recession

Nick Coburn was until recently planning to hire more staff. But after companies like his were hit by a £25bn tax raid in the Budget, he is now racing to find ways to avoid redundancies.

January 16, 2025

Stock market today: Indexes close lower as tech stocks tumble

Indexes closed lower on Thursday, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling almost 1%, led by a slide in mega-cap tech stocks like Apple and Nvidia.

January 16, 2025

Why the stock market's pullback from record highs is more painful than it appears

Technical indicators have showcased most stocks' overwhelmingly negative trading environment over the past six weeks.

January 16, 2025

Why a downward spiral for emerging markets may only just be getting started

Emerging market stocks have fallen 10% since October amid fears of a new trade war, but markets are still not fully pricing in the risks, UBS said.

January 16, 2025

From global internet outages to another year of 20% stock gains — 6 surprises that could shake up markets in 2025

More monster gains for the S&P 500, global internet failure, and $600B worth of power outages are events investors should consider, BofA said.

January 16, 2025

China economy expands 5.4% y/y in Q4, beating market forecast

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's economy ended 2024 on better footing than expected helped by a flurry of stimulus measures, although the threat of a new trade war with the United States and weak domestic demand could hurt confidence in a broader recovery this year. For the full-year 2024, the world's second-largest economy grew 5.0%, meeting the government's annual growth target of around 5%.

January 16, 2025

Taiwan Dollar Optimism Disappears in Options on Stock Outflows

(Bloomberg) -- Worsening outflows in the stock market have helped snuff out a degree of bullishness on the Taiwan dollar, according to a closely-watched measure in the options market.Most Read from BloombergThese Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyNYC Commuters Get New Way to Dodge Traffic: $95 Helicopter RidesWill Americans Ever Lose Their Taste for Telework?Chicago Agency Pitches $1.5 Billion Plan to Fix Transit WoesScaramucci, Ackman Donate to Whitney Tilson’s NYC Mayoral Run

January 16, 2025

These 3 stocks would be the big winners if TikTok is banned in the US

With a possible ban looming for the popular short-form video app, these stocks are set to gain as companies look to capture TikTok users' screen time.

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