published Apr 10th 2016, 5:54 pm, by Emma O’Brien (Bloomberg) — U.S. oil topped $40 a barrel for the first time this month, extending Friday’s surge amid easing concern over a global glut ahead of a meeting of major producers. Commodity-linked currencies held on to gains. West Texas Intermediate crude

©2016 Bloomberg News O3UKOZ6JTSEE (Bloomberg) — Asian stocks looked set to track losses in Europe, after the central bank’s unprecedented bolstering of monetary policy failed to ignite equity gains and instead boosted the euro. While sovereign debt retreated, the yen advanced. Shares in Australia and New Zealand dropped as Japanese

©2016 Bloomberg News O1MW996JIJW1 (Bloomberg) — It’s been three years since Asian stock investors faced volatility this severe. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has moved up or down more than 1 percent for six straight days, the longest stretch since equities were rocked by the European debt crisis in June

©2016 Bloomberg News O0M3BI6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Asian stocksled a rally in riskier assets, climbing with U.S. index futures, oil and high-yielding currencies as China refrained from further cuts to the yuan’s reference rate and scrapped a system of market circuit breakers, providing some reassurance to investors. Shares in Hong Kong

©2015 Bloomberg News NVXE1Y6KLVRE (Bloomberg) — It’s the rally that just keeps on giving. Asian index futures foreshadowed another day of gains for the region’s stocks, with global equities on track for their best week since 2012 amid a bounce back in oil. No such luck for the dollar, which