Bloomberg Canadian natural gas producers are asking Alberta’s government to give drillers a break on their royalty payments in return for cutting back output during periods of heavy pipeline maintenance, a bid to smooth out the province’s volatile gas market. That would give producers an incentive to dial back their output when capacity on TC Energy Corp.’s Nova Gas Transmission …

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is preparing to deliver what the market expects to be the first of multiple interest-rate cuts. The others are sure to follow if policy makers can’t break what’s starting to look like a vicious circle. The Fed isn’t simply bending to the market’s will with this cut: It highlighted the risks of weak inflation and global …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley, the biggest stock-trading shop on Wall Street, is losing some of its lead. The company posted a 14 percent drop in equities-trading revenue, the steepest decline among major US banks, as it cited lower client balances in its prime-brokerage business. While the firm had a surprise jump in wealth-management fees, the trading slump caused overall revenue to …

Bloomberg Nordea Bank Abp said the pressure of negative interest rates and a tougher regulatory environment will force it to review its financial targets this year after delivering a set of quarterly results it characterised as “not satisfactory.” The environment has changed, “with expected lower rates for longer,” Nordea said. On top of that, management is awaiting “more clarity on …

Bloomberg A German smartphone bank backed by billionaires Peter Thiel and Li Ka-shing has raised new funds at a valuation of $3.5 billion, making the company one of Europe’s highest valued non-listed fintech firms. N26 GmbH extended its Series D funding round by $170 million to a total $470 million, the Berlin-based company said. The round was originally announced in …

Bloomberg A 78 percent drop in Yes Bank Ltd shares since August has left founder and former chief executive officer Rana Kapoor some $1 billion poorer. The Indian lender, which reported earnings that showed its capital buffers had weakened and bad loan ratio widened, plunged as much as 20 percent. That’s contributed to a drop in Kapoor’s net worth to …

Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc’s transactions with Iran were worth tens of billions of dollars more than previously known, a whistleblower said in a lawsuit claiming the British bank actively pursued Iranian business in violation of US sanctions. The whistleblower, a bank executive who has not been named in court papers, was the bank’s global head of transaction banking and foreign …

Bloomberg Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren said he doesn’t believe the US economy needs an interest-rate cut, given the positive data that’s rolled in since mid-June. “The economy’s doing actually quite well,” Rosengren said in an interview with CNBC. “We’re not really having an economic slowdown.” Rosengren, who votes this year on the policy-making Federal Open Market …

Bloomberg Walmart Inc is conducting its second US restructuring in as many months to better integrate its money-losing online business with its 4,700 physical stores. The world’s largest retailer will merge the logistics and finance teams for its e-commerce unit and stores, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg News. The company’s merchandising operation, which makes critical decisions on …

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd completed the acquisition of Hong Kong’s only budget carrier as the company expects to lift its market share amid growing competition from mainland Chinese airlines. Hong Kong Express Airways Ltd, which was previously owned by HNA Group Co, will continue operating as a standalone airline under the low-cost model, Cathay said in a statement. The …