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WHG, a Brazilian asset manager founded by former Credit Suisse executives, is adding to its newly formed local equities desk.

Big bank earnings offered little to alter the dimming views on the sector mired in the longest losing streak since the financial crisis. The bright spot: equities trading.

Bloomberg's Sridhar Natarajan joins Scarlet Fu on "Bloomberg Real Yield." As Wall Street’s fixed-income desks struggled in the third quarter, their rivals in equities seized a rare opening to outshine their market brethren. (Source: Bloomberg)

Harvard University’s endowment jumped to a record $68 billion as successful bets on equities and venture capital including SpaceX holdings helped the richest US college weather an unprecedented pressure campaign from President Donald Trump.

Jeff Currie, CEO at Real Macro, says the US focus on issues with diesel prices is “going to make the gasoline problem likely far worse.” He advocates owning the energy equities in what he calls “the revenge of the old economy” in a rotation out of tech. (Source: Bloomberg)

US Treasuries rallied across the curve as a global equities selloff spurred demand for haven assets.

Allan Gray Ltd., which oversees $29 billion in assets, favors Nigerian stocks over South Korean equities, as they offer a diversification play from the artificial-intelligence frenzy that has swept markets from Wall Street to Asia.

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Indian equities slumped as elevated oil prices, higher bond yields and rising borrowings costs fuel persistent selling by investors.

Japanese stocks fell for a second day, tracking a Wall Street selloff as persistently high oil prices revived inflation concerns and weighed on equities near record highs.

The benchmark S&P 500 is up 14 percent this year despite elevated oil prices and US government debt sell-off.

FTSE Russell has reaffirmed the emerging-market status of Indonesian equities amid measures taken by local authorities to improve transparency.

As the political stakes rise in France, the country’s equities are looking vulnerable. They are under-performing, under-owned and worst of all perhaps, Europe’s most unloved.

Norway’s $2.3 trillion sovereign wealth fund is concerned that shareholder rights are weakening in many markets, risking long-term value creation in equities.

Capital.com Senior Market Analyst Kyle Rodda argues that strong corporate earnings continue to buffer equities against rising bond yields and AI valuation risks. He also cautions that investor tolerance could fade quickly if profit growth expectations begin to fade. (Source: Bloomberg)

Vanguard Fixed Income Client Portfolio Manager Rebecca Venter says fixed income can compete with equities as yields stay elevated. She speaks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

Ohsung Kwon, chief equity strategist at Wells Fargo, explains the “pretty negative setup” he sees for equities as he lowers his year-end target for the S&P 500 to 7,700. (Source: Bloomberg)

Equities can keep climbing even as rising bond yields raise the bar for earnings growth, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Grace Peters.

Grace Peters, global investment strategy co-head at JPMorgan Private Bank, discusses the global selloff in bonds and why she sees equities as "the growth engine of the portfolio" even if rising yields place a "higher burden on earnings going forward." Peters speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

European equities face a high bar for a year-end rally as investor confidence hinges on one key factor: a robust outlook for corporate earnings.

Ursula Marchioni, Vanguard's Europe head of multi-asset and adviser solutions, discusses the bond market and how we are witnessing "redesign of fixed income benchmarks in portfolios." She also discusses the differences between US and European investors, saying that in the US there is "huge diversification and huge rotation" out of equities and into fixed income, but in Europe it is still an "untapped opportunity." Marchioni speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

Sharon Bell, equity strategist at Goldman Sachs, discusses the selloff in bonds and why she's positive on European equities. "15% earnings growth is pretty impressive," Bell tells Bloomberg Television. "European companies are global in their reach. They have a lot of exposure to lots of things you want at the moment," she adds. (Source: Bloomberg)

Marta Norton, Chief Investment Strategist at Empower, discusses the outlook for equities and retirement investing amid a bond selloff and rate hiking cycle. (Source: Bloomberg)

Liz Ann Sonders, Charles Schwab chief investment strategist, says there is no one asset allocation that makes sense for every investor. She says the firm is neutral on equities, less favorable on fixed income, and more favorable on commodities. (Source: Bloomberg)

Citadel Securities’ Scott Rubner is growing “increasingly constructive on what comes next” as US equities head into the final quarter of the year.