ROTTERDAM: Palm oil on the European vegetable oils market was little changed on Friday due to lack of direction from the Malaysian palm oil futures market, which was closed for a public holiday.

As U.S. tax cuts prompt Apple Inc. and other tech companies to bring home their overseas cash hoards, it’s leaving a void in the market for short-term corporate bonds, where those firms had invested much of the money. That’s now making it more expensive for other companies to borrow.

Buying real estate is a big decision, but whether it’s better than investing in the stock market is a question that investors shouldn’t be overlooking.
Home prices have increased over the years, but so too have stock prices. There are different pros and cons to each option, and there are many factors to consider, which I’ll examine in a bit more detail below.

One of the world’s biggest indexers is adding more mainland China stocks to its offerings on Friday.
This comes as trade tensions rock Chinese markets and should give them a boost from foreign investors.
MSCI is slowly increasing the number and weighting of China stocks in its indexes to avoid roiling markets.