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3 days ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alexandra Semenova |Phil Serafino
Take the latest Markets Pulse survey: How do you plan to hedge tariff risk as the 90-day extension expires? Tell us your thoughts. The higher the S&P 500 Index goes, the louder the concern that its valuation is starting to look frothy.
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5 days ago | 
bloomberg.com | Michael Msika |Phil Serafino
As far as stock investors are concerned, the US air strikes on Iran over the weekend are a non-event, at least for now. Stock-index futures are trading a touch higher after dropping as much as 1% overnight. European indexes are little changed, while oil erased much of its earlier advance.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Carter Johnson |Saleha Mohsin |Phil Serafino
Take the latest Bloomberg Pulse survey: Does the dollar regain some of its lost haven status amid escalating tensions in the Middle East? Tell us your thoughts. The dollar is having a shocker of a year, down more than 10% against the euro, pound and Swiss franc.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Alexandra Semenova |Phil Serafino
US stocks have been on a choppy, but rising, path over the past couple of months that seemed destined to lead the S&P 500 to its first new record since mid-February.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Phil Serafino |Sagarika Jaisinghani
The never-ending back and forth on tariffs. An escalating war in Ukraine. Growing concern about the US’s mounting debt and deficits, and a congressional budget process that seems unlikely address the problem. Sounds like a recipe for a bear market, and yet global stocks just hit an all-time high. The MSCI All-Country World Index is up 5.6% this year, surpassing its record from February.
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3 weeks ago | 
bloomberg.com | Michael Mackenzie |Ye Xie |Phil Serafino
America’s swelling federal budget gap and growing debt burden are scaring money managers away from the world’s marquee “risk-free” asset – the 30-year US Treasury bond. Instead, investment firms including DoubleLine Capital, Pimco and TCW are favoring shorter maturities that carry less interest-rate risk but still offer a decent yield.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Ye Xie |Liz McCormick |Phil Serafino
The surge in long-term bond yields this month is threatening to upend a classic investment strategy — the 60/40 stock and bond portfolio — just as it makes a comeback from a long stretch of underperformance. A US gauge of the 60/40 mode returned some 1.6% this year through mid-May, besting the S&P 500 Index’s return in the period, and with lower volatility, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Michael Mackenzie |Liz McCormick |Phil Serafino
On the new episode of Trumponomics: Stephanie Flanders, Bloomberg’s head of government and economics, leads a panel from the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha to explore the question of what Trumponomics means for the Middle East. It turns out the answer may be—as Donald Trump would put it—a lot of winning. Listen on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The warnings from the world’s biggest bond market on the US fiscal mess are getting louder.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Simon Kennedy |Phil Serafino
President Donald Trump's attempts to shake up global trade caused widespread upheaval in markets and a decoupling from the US dollar, leaving investors hunting for alternatives. Which emerging markets stand to gain from the new order? Join us for a Live Q&A today at 10 a.m. ET. The dollar is on the slide again with investors speculating the US might use a meeting of Group of Seven finance chiefs as a setting to seek a weaker currency.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Sagarika Jaisinghani |Michael Msika |Phil Serafino
The underperformance of US stocks relative to Europe has been a persistent theme in 2025, even as investor sentiment towards American equities has veered from wildly optimistic to end-of-the world gloomy to mildly bullish. Even so, this will come as a bit of a shock to some: Targets set by JPMorgan imply that European stocks could outperform the US by a record 25 percentage points this year.
