Bloomberg · Feb 20, 2026 · Collected from RSS
A noisy, unsettled Wall Street is doing what years of simply owning the index rarely has: made the smart money look smart again.
Despite years of solid returns, direct lenders can't shake concerns about the once-niche corner of global finance.
The US dollar traded in a tight range early Monday as uncertainty lingered after President Donald Trump lashed out at the US Supreme Court for striking down his use of emergency powers to impose so-called reciprocal tariffs.
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC is set to announce a share buyback worth as much as £1.5 billion ($2 billion), Sky News reported.
From the Supreme Court’s decision against Donald Trump’s tariffs to the threat of Federal Reserve rate hikes and signs of labor-market resilience, a range of pressures are forcing a sentiment shift in the $31 trillion Treasury market back in favor of bears.
President Donald Trump’s latest tariff moves risk upsetting the previously negotiated “equilibrium” between the European Union and the US and could pose a new headwind to the economy, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Sunday.
Equity-options investors are looking to relative value trades between markets as opportunities to profit from dispersion strategies become scare.