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(Bloomberg) -- People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng laid out in the clearest terms yet his vision for the future of a new global currency order after decades of dollar dominance, predicting a more competitive system will take root in the years to come. Most Read from Bloomberg “In the future, the global monetary system could continue to evolve toward a situation where a few sovereign currencies co-exist, compete and check and balance each other,” Pan said Wednesday in a keynote speech at the annual Lujiazui Forum in Shanghai....

(Bloomberg) -- A recent surge in Asian currencies is shifting the outlook for the region’s equities, with money managers and strategists favoring stocks tied to local consumption and expecting a return of global funds. Most Read from Bloomberg Morgan Stanley strategists said they like markets including India and the Philippines, where stocks tend to be more geared toward domestic demand. They favor sectors such as real estate and financials. Aberdeen Investments prefers defensive plays like consumer and healthcare stocks, while Societe Generale SA sees India as a major beneficiary from...

(Bloomberg) -- Asian currencies ripped higher against the US dollar Monday, extending a move that’s hurting exporters, weighing on equities and forcing central banks to intervene in the market to curb excessive gains. Most Read from Bloomberg Taiwan’s dollar surged the most since 1988, sending the nation’s benchmark stock index to its steepest slide in nearly a month. The offshore yuan climbed to its highest level in almost six months as exporters repatriated dollar earnings. The Hong Kong dollar held at the strong end of its allowed trading band for...

(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink pledged to open up private markets to millions of everyday investors, not just the wealthy few, contending individuals should share more of the gains from economic growth. Most Read from Bloomberg “Today, many countries have twin, inverted economies: one where wealth builds on wealth; another where hardship builds on hardship,” Fink said Monday in his annual letter to investors. “The divide has reshaped our politics, our policies, even our sense of what’s possible. Protectionism has returned with force.” The world’s largest...

(Bloomberg) — As US stock prices tumbled this month, John Sidawi, a fund manager at Federated Hermes, noticed something strange. Most Read from Bloomberg The dollar, long a go-to hiding place during market selloffs, wasn’t rallying this time as investors rushed for safety. It was sinking, too, and fast as hot money poured into gold, the yen, European stocks — almost anywhere but the US. “It’s unusual and very telling,” said Sidawi, who helps oversee bond investments at the firm. “The dollar, in an environment where it should be acting...

Orders for durable goods rose 0.9% in February, well above economists' expectations for a 1% decline in the month. Meanwhile, core capital goods orders fell 0.3% in February, below the 0.2% expected, while shipments of capital goods increased 0.9%, higher than the 0.2% economists had expected. The metrics are closely watched, as they feed into the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). But following Wednesday's release, economists at Goldman Sachs wrote that they left their first quarter GDP forecast of 1.3% annualized growth for the US economy "unchanged." Renaissance Macro head of...