• Feb 04, 2025

China Stocks Slide Upon Reopen as Tariffs Keep Traders on Edge

(Bloomberg) -- Chinese stocks fell as investors responded to heightened trade tensions upon their return from a week-long holiday.Most Read from BloombergState Farm Seeks Emergency California Rate Hike After FiresTransportation Memos Favor Places With Higher Birth and Marriage RatesNYC’s Newest Transit Leader Builds a Worker-Driven StrategyNew York’s First ‘Passive House’ School Is a Model of Downtown DensityWhen French Communists Went on a Brutalist Building BoomThe CSI 300 Index dropped 0.6% o

  • Feb 04, 2025

Tokyo tech IPO soars but Seoul deal tanks 10% in volatile Asian markets

SYDNEY/SEOUL (Reuters) -Shares of a small Japanese technology firm shot up nearly 60% on its first day of trade on Wednesday, while Seoul's largest initial public offering (IPO) in three years tanked almost 10% as volatility driven by geopolitics again gripped Asia's equity markets. South Korea's LG CNS shares dropped from opening bell and traded in negative territory for the session, failing to arrest the recent trend of weak debuts for the Seoul market. Shares of Next Generation Technology - the first IPO debut of 2025 in Tokyo - traded 58% higher before paring some gains across the day.

  • Feb 04, 2025

UK-focused funds hit hard as investors pull cash from stocks, Calastone says

British investors yanked a net 640 million pounds ($799 million) from equity funds in January, ending a long run of inflows, as UK-focused funds suffered their sixth-biggest monthly net withdrawals on record, funds network Calastone said on Wednesday. After a wave of bullish sentiment in late 2024 when investors poured money into equity, bond and mixed asset funds, Calastone said UK investors started 2025 "in a more pessimistic mood." UK-focused funds lost 1.07 billion pounds of cash, despite British shares hitting record highs, Calastone said.