This year is shaping up exactly like the 2000 dot-com bubble crash and stocks will drop a further 40%, a former Goldman Sachs manager has warned. April produced the best monthly gains for the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.58% and S&P 500 SPX, -1.04% in 82 years — after the worst first quarter in history — and May has so…

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Paul Singer, the hedge-fund billionaire behind Elliott Management, warned last month that the ultimate path of global stock markets is a drop of at least 50% from February highs. What’s an investor to do in the face of such a grim outlook? Load up on gold, perhaps. After all, according to a report this week from the Financial…

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(Bloomberg) — The dollar had an awful December and things may only get worse. The currency is set to extend losses as a truce in the U.S.-China trade war and signs that global growth is improving sap demand for haven assets, according to ABN Amro Bank NV. At the same time, the Federal Reserve has taken a…

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(Bloomberg Opinion) — As 2019 draws to a close, there’s more than a whiff of banking deregulation in the air. The U.S. has relaxed its lender stress tests and made it easier again for Wall Street to trade using its own funds. In Europe, capital requirements are being softened. The reining in of bank risk…

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