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Bloomberg Australia’s central bank chief said he’ll consider easing monetary policy at next month’s meeting to drive faster hiring, saying unemployment needs to fall below 5 percent to help return inflation to target. “A lower cash rate would support employment growth and bring forward the time when inflation is consistent with the target,” Governor Philip Lowe said in a speech ...

Bloomberg Time and again since Japan emerged as a global economic force, its financial leaders have hatched plans to translate their influence into investment-banking clout. Time and again, they’ve failed. The retreat sounded by Nomura Holdings Inc. last month marks just the latest Japanese overseas flop, prompting current and former executives, as well as analysts, to question if they can ...

Bloomberg A top Democratic lawmaker questioned whether Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Randal Quarles can be trusted when he says leveraged lending isn’t a current threat to the financial system, pointing to his failure to foresee similar dangers before the credit crisis a decade earlier. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, at a Banking Committee hearing, quoted a series of recent remarks ...

Bloomberg India’s non-bank lenders rose after a newspaper reported that the Reserve Bank of India will offer them a credit line to help the shadow banks tide over a liquidity crisis. Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd., Dewan Housing Finance Corp. and Reliance Home Finance Ltd. traded more than 10% higher in Mumbai. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index gained 2.7% after ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in exclusive discussions to buy the B&B Hotels chain from European buyout firm PAI Partners. The transaction is expected to close in the second half of this year, PAI Partners said in a statement on Monday, without providing any financial details. Goldman Sachs is doing the deal through its merchant banking division, according to ...

Bloomberg Czech banks have avoided a threat of special taxes for the industry by agreeing in principle to contribute a portion of their profits to a national development fund proposed by Prime Minister Andrej Babis. Babis said on Monday he wants the units of Societe Generale SA, Erste Group Bank AG, KBC Groep NV, and UniCredit SpA, to pay an ...

Bloomberg The race to lead the Bank of England could turn on who heads the government by the time the decision is made in October. Much has been made of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s comments that he seeking a governor with international stature, prompting a flurry of speculation around former Reserve Bank of India chief Raghuram Rajan. Still, ...

Bloomberg The biggest Nordic asset managers are either holding on to, or increasing, stakes in banks dragged down by vast money laundering scandals. In a region where the concept of ethical investing is regularly held up as a goal, none of the big institutional investors contacted by Bloomberg said they would consider divesting shares of banks under investigation for laundering. ...

Bloomberg Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan says trade tensions might have a chilling effect on the US and global economy, and he’s also watching for the potential effects on inflation. Some end-markets may be jeopardised by the US-China trade dispute, but “the bigger thing is logistics and supply chain arrangements,” Kaplan said during a wide-ranging discussion at ...

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) warned that the escalating trade war could destabilise the global economy, and vowed to continue with its targeted stimulus policy at home. “Trade friction and uncertainties in global policy could impact the global economy negatively” by driving up inflation, damaging household and corporate confidence and causing financial market turbulence, the PBOC said in ...