Global Shares Ease as Central Bank Rate Hikes Loom

Global Shares Ease as Central Bank Rate Hikes Loom
People pass by an electronic screen showing Japan's Nikkei share price index inside a commercial building in Tokyo, Japan, on Sept. 22, 2022. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
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LONDON—Global stocks fell on Monday as investors braced for the last round of transatlantic interest rate hikes this year from a trio of central banks, hoping that a hitherto hefty pace of increases in borrowing costs will finally show signs of easing.

Oil prices rose as a key pipeline supplying the United States remained shut, while Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to cut production in retaliation for a Western price cap on its exports.