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Bloomberg The “extraordinarily loose” fiscal policy announced by UK Prime Minister Liz Truss is set to benefit UK banking stocks, analysts at Deutsche Bank said. The package aimed at combating rising household energy costs will probably prevent a short-term collapse in the economy, and at the same time encourage further interest-rate rises from the Bank of England — adding to ...

Bloomberg The yen rebounded as traders mulled comments from Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on the currency’s decline amid a broad dollar selloff. The dollar-yen pair fell 1.3% to around the 142.20 level, after climbing for four straight sessions. Kuroda held a meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a sign of the nation’s heightened alert levels. “Sudden moves ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank will dial back the pace of policy tightening to quarter percentage-point moves from next month as it tries to navigate a path to cooling inflation while maintaining economic growth. Three-quarters of economists surveyed by Bloomberg expect the cash rate will rise to 2.6% from 2.35% at the Reserve Bank’s October 4 meeting. The poll was ...

  Bloomberg Scions from two of Singapore’s most prominent families are boosting their involvement in digital assets. Whampoa Group, a multi-family office anchored by principals from the Lee family that founded Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and Amy Lee, the niece of the city-state’s founding prime minister, wants to spin out its asset-management business for digital investments. Family offices tend to be ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc is embarking on its biggest round of jobs cuts since the start of the pandemic. The Wall Street titan plans to eliminate several hundred roles starting this month, according to people with knowledge of the matter. While the total number is less than some previous rounds, the reductions are a resumption of Goldman’s annual culling ...

Bloomberg China’s credit growth recovered in August from a record low after the central bank cut rates and pushed banks to lend more, although still anemic household borrowing and the return of shadow banking suggest that real demand for loans is still not strong. Aggregate financing to the economy, which is a broad measure of new credit, was triple the ...

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) is intensifying discussions with bank executives over their readiness for a potential surge in company defaults and a drying-up of energy-market liquidity, amid the worsening stand-off over Russian gas supplies. The Frankfurt-based bank watchdog wrote to lenders last month, telling them to analyse the impact of a gas stoppage on their businesses, according to ...

  Bloomberg Argentine fintech Uala will allow clients in Mexico to receive money from abroad starting as it taps the fast-growing remittances market, which is expected to reach $60 billion in this year. The new service will be operated by Mexican bank ABC Capital, whose acquisition by Uala was announced in November, with the aim of expanding its financial services ...

  Bloomberg Bitcoin rallied the most since July, breaking out of the narrowest trading range in about two years, as a drop in the dollar renewed demand for battered risk assets worldwide. The largest cryptocurrency by market value advanced as much as 10.1% to $21 in New York. The increase was the most since July 19. Bitcoin is outperforming most ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) said it would boost scheduled bond purchases as the intensifying Treasuries selloff puts upward pressure on global yields and weakens the yen. The BOJ said it would buy 550 billion yen ($3.8 billion) of five-10 year bonds at its regular operations, up from 500 billion yen scheduled. The move comes as Japan’s benchmark ...