Borrowing costs in Italy, France and Spain have mostly matched the 20 basis-point rise in benchmark Germany, the bloc's largest economy, since it agreed on a historic debt-rule overhaul in early March ...

In the year thus far, the S&P 500 is down around 2.6%, while the MSCI Asia ex-Japan index is up around 1.5%, but the question is whether these shifts will be long-lived ...