Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank will continue taking a data-dependent approach to monetary policy going forward, central bank Governor Alejandro Diaz de Leon said in an interview, after the board decided to keep borrowing costs at their lowest in almost five years. The bank’s decision to hold its benchmark interest rate at 4% amid an inflation spike prompted some analysts, including ...

Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank is requiring Westpac Banking Corp.’s local unit to hold more liquid assets while it sorts out problems with risk governance processes. Westpac NZ was found to be in breach of the requirements of the Reserve Bank’s liquidity policy over a period from 2012 to 2020, the RBNZ said in a statement in Wellington. It has ...

Bloomberg Commerzbank AG nominated Helmut Gottschalk, formerly at DZ Bank AG, to head its supervisory board in an attempt to put a quick end to a leadership crisis that threatens to derail bank’s reorganisation. Gottschalk was proposed as a new member of the board, which intends to elect him chairman immediately after his appointment by the annual general meeting, the ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG plans to rebuild its equity capital markets business in Asia, seeking to stage a comeback amid strong demand for share sales, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Frankfurt-based lender, which shuttered the majority of its equities business in Asia Pacific in 2019, plans to hire 10 to 12 bankers, said the people. The ...

Bloomberg US equity-index futures fall and European stocks pared gains as traders braced for potential fallout from a wave of forced selling that rattled nerves and took the shine off a record Wall Street close. Oil slid after the ship blocking the Suez Canal was refloated. Contracts on the S&P 500 declined following revelations that Archegos Capital Management LLC — ...

Bloomberg The massive selloff in US-listed shares of Chinese technology companies isn’t linked to their fundamentals and makes for a bigger buying opportunity, according to Citigroup Inc. The brokerage reiterated buy ratings on Baidu Inc., Tencent Music Entertainment Group and Vipshop Holdings Ltd. following what it called an “unfortunate dislocation” of their share prices. Gary Dugan, chief executive officer at ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE was ranked among the 20 leading countries in 16 global competitiveness indexes related to foreign trade in 2020, marking a new achievement and consolidating country’s status as a key centre of international trade. The Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre documented the international references confirming these achievements, most notably the World Competitiveness Yearbook (WCY) published ...

Bloomberg Iraq is discussing a “giant” agreement with French oil giant Total SE to build large infrastructure installations, develop oil fields and produce gas, Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar told Asharq News in an interview. The minister said he expected the contract to be finalised before July. The relationship with Total will be based on targeting low-carbon industry and capturing ...

ABU DHABi / WAM Mohamed Helal Al Mheiri, Director-General of the Abu Dhabi Chamber, has discussed with Zaake W. Kibedi, Ambassador of Uganda to the UAE, means of expanding trade and investment relations between the two countries in a number of key sectors. The meeting, held at the Chamber’s tower in Abu Dhabi, touched upon bolstering the economic cooperation between ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The UAE has strongly denounced the Iran-backed terrorist Houthi militias for attempting to target civilians and civilian objects in a systematic and deliberate manner in the southern region of Saudi Arabia with two explosive drones, which were intercepted by Coalition forces. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MoFAIC) said the UAE ...