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  BLOOMBERG Bank of England policy maker Martin Weale said he needs to see more evidence of the impact of the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union before supporting additional stimulus at the central bank’s August meeting. BOE officials surprised markets and a majority of economists last week when they kept their key interest rate unchanged, and suggested they ...

  Bloomberg A senior official at China’s central bank said companies may be falling into a ‘liquidity trap’ and that the government still has room for to expand the fiscal deficit. Signs of a liquidity trap, economist-speak for when central bank cash injections into the economy fail to spur growth as monetary policy loses potency, are showing in businesses and ...

  MANILA / AP The Asian Development Bank said on Monday it had cut its 2016 growth projection for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to 5.6 percent, down from its earlier forecast of 5.7 percent, but added that the economies’ performance will remain solid and help offset softness from the US economy and near-term market shocks from Britain’s ...

  AFP The European Central Bank, widely expected to hold fire on monetary policy next week, will likely prepare the ground for more stimulus measures in September as the economic fallout for the eurozone from Brexit becomes clearer, analysts predicted. The ECB’s decision-making governing council is scheduled to hold its regular policy meeting on Thursday, a month after Britain voted ...

  Bloomberg Turkey’s central bank is holding an extraordinary meeting with bank executives to discuss ways to minimize the market impact of the coup attempt, the Haberturk newspaper reported. The bank convened members of the Banks Association of Turkey, the Istanbul-based newspaper said, without saying where it got its information about the meeting. Turkey’s lira plunged the most against the ...

  Bloomberg Negative yields are spreading to more areas of the fixed-income market by the day. Data from Barclays Plc highlight the staggering pace of change as this week Deutsche Bahn AG became the first non-financial company to sell negative-yielding bonds, and the German government auctioned 10-year debt with a sub-zero yield for the first time. To get a sense ...

  BLOOMBERG Efforts by regulators to level the playing field among European banks is putting Swedish lenders at a disadvantage, according to the chief executive officer of SEB AB, one of the Nordic country’s four big banks. Regulators from Stockholm to Basel are pushing to shrink differences in how banks estimate potential losses, an undertaking designed to ensure that lenders ...

  Bloomberg Forgot your bank card at home? No worries. Many ATMs will soon dispense cash with help from a smartphone and banking app. A growing number of banks are letting consumers arrange withdrawals via their mobile app and pick up the cash at a nearby automated teller machine. Customers authenticate the transaction by scanning a QR code with their ...

  Bloomberg Citigroup Inc and Wells Fargo & Co reported second-quarter profit dropped from a year earlier as persistently low interest rates continued to squeeze lending margins. Citigroup reduced its forecast for net interest margin, the difference between what a bank charges for loans and pays depositors, while Wells Fargo said the UK’s vote to leave the European Union will ...

  Bloomberg A leading US banking regulator wants lenders to do more to manage their exposure to commercial real estate. As property lending accelerates, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — which oversees American banks alongside the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp — is actively monitoring banks’ stress tests and risk-management practices, Comptroller Thomas ...