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Bloomberg Nigeria’s inflation rate rose in November as food prices continued climbing following border closures. Consumer prices rose 11.9% from a year earlier compared with 11.6% in October, the Abuja-based National Bureau of Statistics said in a report published on Tuesday. The median of three economists’ estimates in a Bloomberg survey was 11.8%. Nigeria’s central bank held its benchmark rate ...

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s operation to inject cash into the financial system over the end of the year was oversubscribed on Monday, an indication that demand for funding through the beginning of 2020 remains ravenous. Primary dealers submitted $54.25 billion in bids for the Fed’s 32-day term repo operation, which matures January 17. That was more ...

Bloomberg India this week joined a select club of countries offering fund transfers around the clock, a move that will give banks more flexibility to manage their liquidity requirements, the central bank said. The National Electronic Funds Transfer (NEFT) sees transactions worth 800 billion rupees ($11.3 billion) daily and the round-the-clock service is expected to boost online transactions for customers ...

Bloomberg The Credit Suisse Group AG spying incident surrounding the departure of former wealth management head Iqbal Khan might not be an isolated case. The bank may have spied on former Chief Human Resources Officer Peter Goerke, Swiss newspaper NZZ reported, citing documents it obtained as part of an investigation. A former Credit Suisse employee in the US also recently ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong dollar bears are abandoning bets the currency will weaken, squeezed by the longest streak of gains in more than five years. The local dollar rose as much as 0.13% to 7.7867 versus the greenback on Monday, taking its six-day gain to about 0.5% — a large move for a pegged exchange rate. Supporting the advance are bets ...

Bloomberg India’s central bank governor Shaktikanta Das said there’s more room for easing monetary policy, but a lot depends on how these actions are timed. “It’s a very clear forward guidance,” Das said at the Times Network India Economic Conclave in Mumbai on Monday. “While taking a pause, we very carefully and definitively said there’s space for further monetary action, ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG plans to restructure the unit that serves the bank’s top billionaire clients in the first sweeping changes under its new co-head of key wealth management Iqbal Khan. Khan and co-head Tom Naratil are seeking to break apart the ultra high net worth unit led by Joseph Stadler and move some less rich clients into the regional ...

Bloomberg The pound pared earlier advances following disappointing economic data, as the gloomy economic picture countered the optimism in the market following the decisive Conservative victory in last week’s election. Sterling returned to the flatline after purchasing managers’ indexes from UK factories posted their weakest performance in more than seven years. The currency had earlier advanced against all its major ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will leave monetary policy unchanged this week, and probably for much longer, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled a stimulus package to bolster growth, according to a Bloomberg survey. All 45 economists polled expect no action from the bank at the end of a two-day meeting on Thursday. For the first time since April, ...

Bloomberg The world’s oldest central bank stands to be the most significant this month as it pioneers a shift away from negative interest rates. Sweden was among the handful of economies that reduced key interest rates half a decade ago below zero. Now officials at the Riksbank — founded in 1668 — insist the policy has done its stimulus work, ...