A $518 Billion Rally Shows Japan Stocks Are All the Rage in 2023

(Bloomberg) — Some of the world’s most famed investors and the biggest Wall Street banks are voicing a near consensus that Japan’s stock market is the place to be as its larger peers — the US and China — grapple with rising economic headwinds.Most Read from BloombergZelenskiy’s Surprise G-7 Stop Unnerves Critical Brazilian LeaderDebt-Limit Talks Resume After Optimism Curbed by GOP Walk-OutHedge Funds’ Ultra-Bearish Oil Bets Signal US Recession AngstStock Market Keeps Rallying, Defying Doom Scen
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Stocks Plunge to 20-Month Low as Fed Hawks Circle: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — US stocks sank to the lowest since November 2020 as another group of Federal Reserve officials struck a hawkish tone, and turmoil in Europe continued to fray investor nerves.Most Read from BloombergApple Ditches iPhone Production Increase After Demand FaltersMacKenzie Scott Files for Divorce From Science Teacher HusbandTrump Refuses to Delay Florida Deposition in Phone-Fraud Case Despite HurricaneVolatility Grips Stocks as Fed Remains Hawkish: Markets WrapThe UK’s Crisis of Confid
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US Stocks Swing as Fed Pivot Seems Less Likely: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — US stocks struggled for direction as investors parsed hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials and data showing slower growth in the manufacturing sector.Most Read from BloombergChina’s Rebound Remains Fragile as Factories, Property SlumpManchin Spending Deal Includes Billions in Oil Import TaxesPelosi Is Expected to Visit Taiwan, Ramping Up US-China TensionsAre We Ready to Start Saying the R-Word?The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100 swung between gains and losses throughout the
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The market’s worst first half in 50 years has all come down to one thing

A multitude of factors conspired to generate the stock market’s worst first-half since 1970, but they all emanated from one word: inflation.
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Slim Chance U.S. Stocks Will Rack Up Another Year of Gains

(Bloomberg) — The S&P 500 Index is poised to end higher for the third year in a row, having added more than 20% so far in 2021. Another rally in 2022 would make for a four-year winning streak, which has happened only five times in nearly a century.Most Read from BloombergSouth Africa Hospitalization Rate Plunges in Omicron WaveAcross the U.S., School Shooting Threats on TikTok Prompt Closures and More PoliceOmicron Gets Around Previous Covid Infection, Study WarnsN.Y. Covid Cases Top 20,000 for
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China’s Stock Market Tops $10 Trillion First Time Since 2015

(Bloomberg) — Chinese domestic equities are worth more than $10 trillion for the first time since 2015, when a record crash erased half the market’s value in months and saddled millions of investors with losses.The world’s second-largest stock market has added $3.3 trillion since a low in March, helped
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