Bloomberg Kwasi Kwarteng signed off on £100 billion ($113 billion) of bond buying by the Bank of England (BOE) as the market fall into turmoil last week, higher than the size of the plan announced by the central bank and an indication of the level of concern among officials about volatility in the gilt markets. The BOE took emergency …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc is exploring a sale of its operations in Canada, the latest move to streamline the lender that is seeking to head off a call by its largest shareholder to split up. A potential sale of HSBC’s 100% equity stake in HSBC Bank Canada is among the options being explored, the lender said in a statement. The …

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG is struggling to halt departures from its private bank in Hong Kong, with more recent resignations amid the turmoil at the Swiss lender. Luke Chiu, a managing director and China market leader has resigned from the bank. Nelson Hui, a director and team leader for China has also resigned, along with two relationship managers. …

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc has told shareholders it should have given them a better explanation of how it cut the pay of staff after it was hit with a fine from UK regulators over an error that led to the bank overestimating its access to US dollar funding. Responding to a backlash at a May shareholder meeting where a …

  Bloomberg Barclays Plc said some of its bankers may face disciplinary action and pay cuts after the firm agreed to a $361 million penalty to settle US allegations that it failed to register billions of dollars-worth of securities offerings. The bank didn’t put in place a mechanism to track the sales as required by the Securities and Exchange Commission …

  Bloomberg Global bonds and stocks are rallying on hopes that the latest signs of weakness in the US economy will push the Federal Reserve to rethink the aggressive monetary policy tightening that some fear will trigger a recession. While the so-called Fed pivot has long been hoped for, it got another jolt this week with the release of weaker-than-expected …

Bloomberg The stock rallies of Gautam Adani’s companies, which expanded his fortune at a pace that outran all other billionaires globally, is set for a reversal, according to a technical indicator that predicted previous slumps for more than a decade. TD Sequential, a widely followed DeMark technical indicator that forecast drops in Adani Enterprises Ltd. three times since 2009, suggests …

Beijing / WAM China’s automobile manufacturing industry posted a 3.3 percent revenue growth in the first eight months of this year, Chinese news agency, Xinhua, reported. The sector raked in some 5.7 trillion yuan (about $802.84 billion) during the January-August period, up 3.3 percent, official data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed. In the first eight months of …

  Jeddah / WAM Dr Muhammad Sulaiman Al Jasser, Chairman of the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) group, has said that his group has provided $165.630.5 billion to finance development projects in various economic sectors, since its launch and up to June 30. In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Dr Al Jasser said that food security is a …

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc. plans to suspend service at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, following through on a threat earlier this month to halt flights if regulators don’t allow the carrier to expand there. The decision will only affect four daily flights. The carrier’s New York-area presence is largely concentrated at nearby Newark Liberty International Airport in …