Bloomberg Emmanuel Macron is readying for Phase Two of his presidency. The 40-year-old French leader is preparing broad changes within his government to jump start his presidency and draw a line under months of scandals and political setbacks. He is readying for “an important rebound,” according to his office. The new cabinet is expected to be announced on Tuesday, Journal ...

President Donald Trump’s trade war is less bad than it was just a short time ago. After some tense negotiations, the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) has been replaced with a new, very similar arrangement, meaning the disruption to trade — and to US relations with Canada and Mexico — will be contained. The agreement might even ease the ...

With Comcast Corp.’s 12-part, $27 billion jumbo bond offering to fund its acquisition of Sky Plc, the US cable giant is on the path to joining a select group of companies with more than $100 billion of debt. But what’s just as noteworthy is the club that Comcast chose to avoid. Comcast will likely keep its A- and A3 credit ...

Bashing European banks together in a game of spin-the-deal-wheel makes for great headlines — UniDeutsche? BarChart? — but it will do little to dent the record market share in investment banking their US rivals enjoy. Of the many diseases blighting Europe’s financial industry, the most relevant one for clients is the gaps in its global presence. As long as the ...

Since becoming France’s president last year, Emmanuel Macron has made bold moves. He has modernized the economy by relaxing labor rules, reducing taxes for entrepreneurs, and making the higher education system more meritocratic. His government’s new budget includes the biggest tax cuts introduced in France in more than a decade. Yet the public remains unimpressed. Macron’s approval rating has been ...

When one of India’s largest shadow bankers — an institution with 169 subsidiaries that calls itself Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) — admitted to a series of defaults last week, Indian markets came close to a crisis. Fearing that a prolonged investment slowdown would intensify, the government invoked a little-known clause in India’s Companies Act and appointed a new ...

Investors’ pens are hovering a bit longer before writing checks to fintech startups. Funding Circle Holdings Plc was once tipped to be valued at as much as 2 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) in its initial public offering (IPO). When it made its market debut last week, the online lending marketplace weighed in at a skinnier 1.5 billion pounds. That’s still ...

Australia’s investigation into misconduct within its financial-services sector is moving towards the last act. Just don’t expect to see the bad guys get punished. The Royal Commission, which published its interim report, has heard a litany of bad practices the country’s banks, insurers, financial advisers and others have committed, from charging dead people fees to duping the corporate regulator. The ...

Bloomberg US equity futures fell with European shares as fresh concern about Italy’s defiance of EU officials added to an already gloomy mood across stocks, with those in China tumbling after a one-week vacation ended. The dollar rose as Treasuries took a holiday before a busy week of debt sales. Oil companies and banks led the Stoxx Europe 600 Index ...

Bloomberg If the Federal Reserve tightens US monetary policy too far, investors in the bull market’s biggest winners will feel the pain first, according to Bank Julius Baer & Co. That’s tech stocks. Strong economic growth will encourage the Fed to keep raising interest rates, even if the tightening sucks out more liquidity than financial markets can tolerate, said Yves ...