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Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank is discussing the possibility of cutting interest rates but is waiting for the right time to do so, Deputy Governor Dody Waluyo said. Given the uncertainty in financial markets, the central bank needs to be “cautious” and a rate cut “will depend on the timing,” Waluyo said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Kathleen Hays in …

Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s outlook for euro-zone inflation is “not bad” and investors have underestimated the institution’s willingness to act if needed, according to policy maker Vitas Vasiliauskas. Market-based inflation expectations have dipped to near a record low despite ECB President Mario Draghi saying that interest-rate cuts and asset purchases could be deployed if needed to fight any further …

Bloomberg India’s economic soft patch has put Asia’s most dovish central bank on notice, yet again. Growth cooled to 5.8 percent in the first three months of the year, the slowest pace in several quarters, according to a government report. That took the expansion in the fiscal year to March 2019 to 6.8 percent, lower than the 6.9 percent median …

Bloomberg Federal Reserve watchers said the central bank will abandon its patient policy stance and cut interest rates in coming months as President Donald Trump’s planned new tariffs on Mexican goods may drag down US economic growth. JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief US economist Michael Feroli now projects quarter-point rate reductions in September and December, while Barclays Plc’s Michael Gapen …

Bloomberg Betting on overreaction — assuming that stocks move too far on new information and will reverse course — is more successful in China than any other market, according to quantitative strategists at Morgan Stanley. Reversals of the trend seen during the previous few months tend to beat momentum trading, analysts including head of Asia quantitative research Yinan Zhang wrote …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG and UBS Group AG briefly explored the idea of a megamerger earlier this year that would have created continental Europe’s biggest financial institution, people with knowledge of the matter said. Top Deutsche Bank and UBS officials held preliminary discussions in recent months about a potential combination, according to the people, who asked not to be identified …

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co is in negotiations to settle a US probe into procurement of low-income housing tax credits as its top lawyer tries to clean up issues before handing off the chief executive officer role. The US Justice Department is aiming to resolve an investigation into multiple banks’ alleged manipulation of tax-credit bidding in the next couple months, …

Bloomberg Judy Shelton, a conservative economist being considered by the White House for a spot on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, isn’t convinced the goals set for it by Congress are relevant for the US central bank. “I would probably be highly skeptical of those,” she said in an interview with Bloomberg, referring to the mandate in the Federal …

Bloomberg Chinese central bank officials downplayed emerging stress in the financial system following the state takeover of a regional bank, and said depreciation in the currency is under control. Speaking at an event in Beijing, People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang said policy makers are “fully capable” of managing risks at small and medium-sized lenders, and the Chinese currency …

Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) will offer euro-area banks generous terms on its upcoming long-term loans when it meets next week but won’t do anything to soften the impact of negative rates, economists predict. Respondents in a Bloomberg survey said the interest rate on the two-year loans will be below the ECB’s benchmark rate — currently zero — if …