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BLOOMBERG Jefferies Financial Group is starting an investment-banking unit in Canada as part of an international expansion of its core Wall Street operations. The company will offer investment-banking and capital-markets services to its corporate, institutional and government clients in Canada, Jefferies said in a statement. The office in Toronto will employ more than 40 people across investment banking, equity research, ...

BLOOMBERG Nigeria’s central bank pledged major changes to get a grip on inflation and steady the country’s battered currency, signaling tighter monetary policy ahead. The Central Bank of Nigeria will switch to inflation targeting instead of trying to control money supply in its battle to slow price increases, Governor Olayemi Cardoso said in a speech to bankers. The central bank ...

BLOOMBERG DBS Group Holdings Ltd is looking to cash in on the boom in private credit by originating and distributing deals, according to the global head of fixed income at Southeast Asia’s largest bank. While the company is looking to pair up clients with private credit providers, it will steer clear of doing direct lending transactions itself to avoid conflicts ...

BLOOMBERG The outlook is set to darken for the dollar in 2024, but the sturdy US economy and high yields will likely support the currency’s valuation, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc strategists led by Kamakshya Trivedi. The greenback is still up about 1.6% this year, after slipping from its 2023 highs set last month. It’s on track for a ...

BLOOMBERG One of the most high-profile blockchain systems in traditional banking has added a new feature that lets companies shift cash automatically. JPMorgan Chase & Co’s JPM Coin now allows clients to program their accounts by plugging in a set of key conditions, enabling them to move funds to cover overdue payments and margin calls. Further down the line, it ...

BLOOMBERG China’s iron-clad grip on the yuan has reached a level unseen for well over a decade in its daily reference rate, raising the risk of a buildup of currency pressure that may one day have to be released. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) kept the so-called fixing for the managed currency little changed on Monday, not reacting to ...

BLOOMBERG Between 2013 and 2017, Peter To claims he made more than $1 million by day-trading Bitcoin during its bull runs. While the world’s largest cryptocurrency has rallied in recent weeks, more than doubling from levels after last year’s epic collapse that helped blow up the FTX exchange, the 34-year-old professional stock trader in New York says it’s not enough ...

BLOOMBERG European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said that slowing inflation is “certainly our forecast” and that the institution is determined to return prices to its target. “We are determined to bring inflation down to 2%,” Lagarde told the Greek newspaper Kathimerini in remarks posted on the ECB’s website. “According to our projections we will get there in 2025.” ...

BLOOMBERG Asia’s emerging-market currencies are proving attractive to investors willing to bet on local central banks keeping interest rates high and the fading strength of the dollar. In the view of Brendan McKenna, an emerging market strategist at Wells Fargo & Co, the Indonesian rupiah, Philippine peso and Thai baht are among the best bets. Other experts point the fact ...

BLOOMBERG JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon plans to sell shares currently worth about $141 million, the first such transaction since he took the helm at the Wall Street giant almost 18 years ago. Starting next year, Dimon and his family will dispose of 1 million of the lender’s shares for financial diversification and tax-planning purposes, according ...