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  Bloomberg China weakened its currency fixing by the most since last August as global market turmoil spurred by Britain’s vote to leave the European Union sent the dollar surging. The People’s Bank of China set the reference rate 0.9 percent weaker at 6.6375 a dollar. A gauge of the greenback’s strength jumped 2.4 percent in the past two days, ...

  Bloomberg India’s economy will be among the least impacted in Asia by the UK’s vote to exit the European Union given its relatively low exposure to trade, according to Morgan Stanley. “Increased uncertainty in the external environment due to UK’s vote should add to downward pressures on growth and inflation in the region,” Morgan Stanley economists including Chetan Ahya ...

  AP The British were warned for weeks that a vote to leave the European Union would result in economic pain. Now they’ll find out whether it will. UK financial leaders are scrambling to reassure households, businesses and investors that they can contain the doom and gloom they had predicted in case of a British exit, or Brexit. The pound ...

  Bloomberg Saudi Arabia appointed JPMorgan Chase & Co, HSBC Holdings Plc and Citigroup Inc to arrange its first international bond sale, people with knowledge of the matter said asking not to be identified as the decision isn’t public. The banks declined to comment, while calls to Saudi Arabia’s finance ministry outside office hours weren’t immediately returned. Saudi Arabia is ...

  Bloomberg Marc Lasry, chairman and chief executive officer of hedge fund firm Avenue Capital Group, told Fox Business Network that the Federal Reserve is likely to hold interest rates steady after British voters’ decision to leave the European Union. “I don’t think the Fed’s going to raise rates right now,” Lasry told the business-news channel, according to excerpts from ...

  AP A new Chinese-led development bank has approved its first loans and expects to suffer no impact from Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, the bank’s president said Saturday at its first annual meeting. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, launched in January with 57 member governments, already has received expressions of interest from possible additional members, said Jin ...

  Bloomberg Listen at the doors of two major gatherings of the world’s central bankers in Switzerland and Portugal next week, and one might hear little but the sound of forecasts being shredded. The world’s monetary guardians will gather at the Bank for International Settlements’ annual meeting in Basel over the weekend, and at the European Central Bank’s yearly policy ...

  Bloomberg Italian and Spanish lenders were the biggest participants in the European Central Bank’s latest new loan programme, increasing their net borrowings by more than 25 billion euros (US$28 billion). Intesa Sanpaolo SpA said it increased borrowings by about 8 billion euros in the first of four targeted longer-term refinancing operations after paying back loans under a previous program, ...

  Bloomberg Global stocks are plunging. The pound is crashing. Economists and policymakers are predicting a recession in the UK and beyond after Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union. If the fallout from Brexit gets worse, will the biggest US banks be able to weather the shock? The Federal Reserve has provided reason for optimism that they will. ...

  Bloomberg Currencies, stocks and bonds plunged across Africa after the UK’s vote to leave the European Union triggered a slump in oil and other commodities and sent investors scurrying for safe assets. South Africa’s benchmark share index fell the most since May 2010 to a third weekly decline, led by stocks with listings in London and by diversified mining ...