Bloomberg Here’s some advice that wealthy Asians are getting from their private bankers after Britain’s vote to quit the European Union has thrown markets in turmoil: Add to corporate credit, avoid risky assets and expect UK property prices to drop. Credit Suisse Group AG, Citigroup Inc and United Overseas Bank Ltd are telling clients that higher-quality corporate bonds are ...
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BOJ dollar operation attracts largest bids
Bloomberg The Bank of Japan offered to supply US$1.475 billion at a regular dollar funding operation after global financial markets plunged in the wake of the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union. The funding covers the period from June 30 to July 8 and was the biggest amount accepted since the end of December 2014, when US$1.528 billion ...
Read More »Brexit plays dampener to Draghi’s retreat as ECB faces crisis
Bloomberg Sintra was never meant to be like this. The European Central Bank’s annual forum in the luscious Portuguese retreat outside Lisbon, was intended as a laid-back event where central bankers and academic economists can thrash out the theories of monetary policy. Instead, reality has intruded once again, this time in the form of the UK’s shock decision to ...
Read More »Nordea CEO pledges dividend growth
Bloomberg Nordea Bank AB underscored its intention to hand shareholders bigger dividends each year amid speculation it may need to hold more regulatory capital after underestimating the risk in its corporate loan book. The bank paid 64 euro cents per share in 2015, more than doubling payouts to investors since 2010. After backtracking in January on a pledge to ...
Read More »Italy to weigh US$44billion banks injection after EU referendum
Bloomberg Italy is considering injecting capital into some lenders after the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union sparked a selloff among banks already hurt by investor concerns tied to their bad loans, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. The government is weighing measures that may add as much as 40 billion euros ($44 billion), said one ...
Read More »PPC gets banks to back 4bn-rand share
Bloomberg PPC Ltd., South Africa’s largest publicly traded cement maker, said it received 4 billion rand (US$263 million) of bank guarantees to underwrite the sale of shares to existing investors, adding to facilities it received last week to redeem bonds. A group of lenders including Standard Bank Group Ltd, Nedbank Group Ltd, FirstRand Ltd’s Rand Merchant Bank and Barclays ...
Read More »Weakened yuan fixing as dollar surges
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, ...
Read More »India among Asia’s least exposed to UK’s vote to exit
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 ...
Read More »British brace for gloom and doom after Brexit
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 ...
Read More »Saudi to hire JPMorgan for first dollar bond
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 ...
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