The world's biggest sovereign wealth fund is getting roughed up

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the biggest in the world, is getting chewed. The $840 billion fund lost more than 5% on its investments in the past month, the fund's CEO, Yngve Slyngstad, said, according to Bloomberg's Saleha Mohsin.

Apollo Pushing Short Credit Fund Amid ’Danger Signs’

Leon Black’s Apollo (APO) Global Management LLC is raising a new fund to bet against corporate credit as concerns grow over deteriorating debt markets.

Gold Surrenders Streak as Investors Embrace Stocks With 20% Gain

Investors’ 12-year love affair with gold ended in 2013 as they abandoned the precious metal for stock markets in the world’s developed economies, lifting global share prices by the most in four years.

U.S. manufacturing demand, China services sector suggest growth

(Reuters) - Demand picked up in the U.S. manufacturing sector in August, data showed on Tuesday, which together with a report showing steady growth in China's services sector added to signs of strength in the world's two biggest economies.

Wall St ticks lower ahead of US presidential vote

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped in low volume on Monday as traders awaited Tuesday's U.S. election to place bets on sectors seen performing better under one or the other political party.

Chinese Export Growth Tumbles

HONG KONG — Signs that the Chinese economy is sputtering mounted Friday, in the form of dismally feeble trade data that fanned expectations that Beijing would soon step up its efforts to buttress growth before a key leadership transition this autumn.