Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co’s traders and investment bankers emerged from a messy third quarter with a few surprise wins. Fixed-income trading jumped 25% and investment-banking fees posted an unexpected increase, the company said on Tuesday in a statement. That led the corporate and investment bank division to its best third quarter in three years. JPMorgan seized on some late-quarter …

Bloomberg South Korea’s first-ever drop in consumer prices and a relentless decline in exports are adding to the case for the central bank to cut interest rates on Wednesday. The Bank of Korea (BOK), which lowered its key rate in July and left it unchanged in August, will reduce the seven-day repurchase rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%, matching …

Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) Governor Mark Carney has defended the concept behind new crypto currencies like the Facebook Inc-led Libra. Asked by lawmakers in London on Tuesday why firms like the social media company should be getting involved in such projects given the associated risks, Carney pointed to the shortcomings of existing payments systems. He said the high costs …

Bloomberg Wirecard AG fell the most since February in Frankfurt after a news report said it found repeated questionable accounting practices at the German payments firm. Wirecard fell as much as 23% in early trading after the Financial Times said it’s published internal company documents and correspondence that “appear to indicate a concerted effort to fraudulently inflate sales and profits” …

Bloomberg Paytm is close to scoring $2 billion of new financing from investors including Jack Ma’s Ant Financial and SoftBank Group Corp, a person familiar with the matter said, describing a mega-deal that will raise the temperature in India’s increasingly heated financial payments arena. Rob Citrone’s Discovery Capital Management is also in discussions to join a funding round that values …

Bloomberg US equity-index futures rose with stocks in Europe as major Wall Street names began reporting earnings for the third quarter. Contracts on the S&P 500 trimmed some of their advance and Treasuries rallied as Bloomberg reported China may struggle to buy the volume of American goods proposed in the “phase one” trade deal. The three main American equity indexes …

Bloomberg The pound climbed towards a three-month high after European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier rekindled optimism for a Brexit deal before the week is out. Sterling is leading gains among of Group-of-10 currencies, after Barnier said a deal is possible this week but talks remain tough. Options prices showed that investors are positioning for further wider swings in the …

Bloomberg Sales of private apartments in Singapore jumped 13% in September to the highest in more than a year even as home-price growth moderated. Developers in the city-state sold 1,270 apartments last month versus a revised 1,123 in August, according to data from the Urban Redevelopment Authority released on Tuesday. That’s the most since July 2018, when the government shocked …

Bloomberg Santos Ltd. agreed to buy ConocoPhillips’ northern Australia business for $1.4 billion in a deal that will boost the Adelaide-based oil and gas producer’s position in the growing Asian liquefied natural gas market. The transaction may allow Santos to become the country’s largest independent energy producer and capitalise on a push by Asian consumers, including China, to switch to …

Bloomberg China’s biggest refiner plans to reduce operations from next month after a surge in the cost of shipping crude eroded margins. Freight rates have skyrocketed since the US announced sanctions on Chinese shipowners in late-September, triggering a flight from vessels owned by affected companies and a bidding war for alternative tankers. That’s driven up the cost of importing crude …