Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has approached a Saudi state-owned entity about a multibillion-dollar deal, according to the bank’s chief executive officer for the Middle East and North Africa. “We’re very keen on deploying our principal capital in the region in both forms: credit and equity capital,” Wassim Younan said in an interview in Riyadh. “We continue to prospect for ...

Bloomberg Australia’s banking probe could see job cuts in the finance and real estate sectors equivalent to losses during the 2008 global financial crisis, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPMorgan analysts led by Sally Auld see three main channels for the Royal Commission to exert influence on the Australian economy: tighter lending standards and slower credit growth; wealth effects ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s new chief executive officer pledged to keep the struggling lender “strong” in Asia even as he prepares to overhaul operations worldwide. “We can only be relevant to our clients if we continue to be strong in Asia,” CEO Christian Sewing said on Monday at an investor forum in Singapore on his first visit to the region ...

Bloomberg The pound may have sold off into the Bank of England meeting but its recent drop is bringing back the bulls. Sterling slid almost 6 percent in the three weeks leading up to the May BOE policy announcement, as traders slashed bets on a hike in borrowing costs. Now they’ve been proven right as the central bank opted to ...

Bloomberg A global squeeze on emerging market assets has forced the Reserve Bank of India to take actions that sometime appear at conflict with each other. To help cool rising bond yields, the central bank said that it will buy bonds for the first time in 18 months, infusing cash into financial markets. But that counters moves to prop up ...

Bloomberg The Philippines became the latest emerging market to raise interest rates, following through with a pledge to curb inflation in a booming economy. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas increased the overnight reverse repurchase rate to 3.25 percent from a record-low 3 percent, it said in a statement in Manila. Thirteen of 16 economists predicted the decision, with the rest expecting ...

Bloomberg Airbus SE Chief Financial Officer Harald Wilhelm will follow Chief Executive Officer Tom Enders out the door in April, deepening a shakeup of senior management as the European planemaker grapples with the future of the A380 superjumbo and a long-running bribery investigation. Wilhelm, 52, decided “in agreement with the board of directors” that he will leave in April after ...

Bloomberg Asia, where more than a dozen new low-fare carriers started in the past two decades, got a new entrant in Japan Airlines Co. Japan’s second-largest carrier is deepening its bet in the market for frills-free air travel by setting up a carrier in July for medium-to-long-haul international flights from Narita International Airport, which serves Tokyo. The yet-to-be named carrier ...

Bloomberg Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise will start serving Manchester in northern England from December, adding a second UK destination months before Britain is due to quit the European Union and 45 years after the carrier began flying to London Heathrow. The service from Addis Ababa will operate four times weekly using a Boeing Co. 787 Dreamliner jet in a two-class layout, ...

Bloomberg After the giddy heights of January when its shares hit an all-time high, Tencent Holdings Ltd. has shed $78 billion in value as investors price in the costs of the Internet giant’s massive spending spree. Results on Wednesday are expected to show that rising costs and investments will hurt profitability at Asia’s biggest listed company. While Tencent has said ...