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Bloomberg Dollar bears take heed: Asian central banks may be putting the brakes on the greenback’s slide. After working for three years to staunch the yuan’s slump, China is now moving to combat the opposite problem. The People’s Bank of China has stopped using a component of its daily fixing formula that had been widely interpreted as a tool to ...

Bloomberg Bank of Baroda, India’s third-largest state-run lender, is seeking to sell unit Nainital Bank Ltd. as it sheds non-core assets to bolster its balance sheet, people familiar with the matter said. A decision on the size of the stake to be sold will depend on approvals from the Indian central bank, the people said, asking not to be identified ...

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley countered Bill Gross’s call that Treasuries are in a bear market. “Don’t worry, Treasuries continue to offer value,” Morgan Stanley strategists Matthew Hornbach and Guneet Dhingra in New York wrote in a note. “This isn’t the bear market you’re looking for,” according to the firm, one of the 23 primary dealers that underwrite US debt securities. A ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank has made a change to the regime used to manage the yuan, effectively removing a component used by banks to calculate their submissions to the currency’s daily reference rate, according to people familiar with the matter. The People’s Bank of China recently told some lenders that contribute to the rate — known as the fixing — ...

Bloomberg Spain’s Alantra Partners SA is considering moving its headquarters from Madrid to London in a bet the UK capital will remain the center of European business and finance even after Brexit, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The investment bank and money manager, which oversees 3.7 billion euros ($4.4 billion) of assets and employs about 350 ...

SYDNEY/ Reuters The US central bank should be patient as it raises interest rates this year, said Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic, adding his voice to other dovish comments from officials concerned by low inflation and the risk of an inverted yield curve. “I am comfortable continuing with a slow removal of policy accommodation,’’ Bostic, who votes ...

Bloomberg Andorran private bank Andbank is working to add Argentina to its Latin American roster and looking to expand in Mexico and Brazil as tax amnesty programs unlock wealth in the region. The micro-state’s largest bank, with 25 billion euros ($30 billion) under management, is trying to obtain a license to operate as a global investment adviser in Argentina under ...

Bloomberg The Swiss National Bank (SNB) expects to have racked up a record 54 billion-franc ($55 billion) profit in 2017, in large part because of the drop in the franc against the euro. Earnings at the central bank led by Thomas Jordan got a boost from holdings of foreign currency, which contributed 49 billion francs. The overall result dwarfs even ...

SYDNEY/ Reuters The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has raised around $260 million via three sharia-compliant facilities to support small- and medium-sized businesses in the region, as African markets gradually open to Islamic finance. Cairo-based Afreximbank, which was founded by African governments and other investors in 1993 and focuses on trade finance, obtained a $100 million financing from the Islamic Corp ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG is in discussions to acquire a majority stake in its Chinese securities joint venture, Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti said, as global banks rush to take advantage of Beijing’s pledge to further open its financial markets. UBS has started talks with its local partners on taking a 51 percent stake in the venture, Ermotti said in ...