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  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. plans to set up shop in Munich to strengthen its coverage of Germany’s biggest, and newest, companies. The US investment bank is close to signing a lease for an office on upmarket Maximilianstrasse from the end of 2023, people familiar with the matter said, asking not to be identified discussing confidential information. It will ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan unexpectedly raised its benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point to prevent stronger-than-anticipated inflation from spiraling out of control. State Bank of Pakistan increased the target rate to 16%, a move expected by just one of 44 economists in a Bloomberg survey while the rest had predicted no change. The authority also raised its annual inflation ...

  Bloomberg China’s central bank cut the amount of cash lenders must hold in reserve for the second time this year, ramping up support for an economy racked by surging Covid cases and a continued property downturn. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) reduced the reserve requirement ratio for most banks by 25 basis points, it said in a statement. ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Canada’s No. 2 official said the country’s financial system will be able to weather growing stability risks stemming from higher interest rates and inflation that’s causing hardship for many households. In prepared remarks of a speech delivered in Ottawa, Senior Deputy Governor Carolyn Rogers said risks for Canada are mitigated by financial reforms since the 2008-09 ...

  Bloomberg The Riksbank raised borrowing costs by 75 basis points and signalled more tightening is needed to tame inflation even as it predicted a worsening slump for Sweden’s economy. In his final decision as central-bank governor, Stefan Ingves and his colleagues lifted the key interest rate to 2.5%, the highest since 2008. Most economists anticipated the move. Officials raised ...

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) must continue raising interest rates to bring inflation back to 2% even if it means more hardship for households, Deputy Governor Dave Ramsden said. Citing concerns about the tight labour market and high inflation expectations, Ramsden said his bias was for further tightening. The BOE has raised rates eight times since December to ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank will raise interest rates three more times and then pause from mid-2023 as it tries to slow demand and consumer prices without triggering a recession, economists say. The Reserve Bank will lift its cash rate to 3.6% by June, the median estimate of 35 analysts in a Bloomberg survey showed, up from last month’s forecast ...

  Bloomberg The three-month London interbank offered rate for dollars climbed to the highest level since the financial crisis in an otherwise quiet day for the front-end of fixed income markets. The benchmark rate for lending between banks rose for the third straight session, climbing roughly 5.9 basis points to 4.75729%, the highest since October 2008. The spread of Libor ...

  Bloomberg China signalled that more monetary policy stimulus — including a cut to the reserve requirement ratio — is on the table as it looks to boost lending and support the flagging economy. Tools will be used “in a timely and appropriate manner” to maintain reasonably ample liquidity, the State Council said, broadcaster CCTV reported. The People’s Bank of ...

  Bloomberg China’s mega banks, led by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., (ICBC) pledged financing support of at least 925 billion yuan ($129 billion) to property developers as part of a push to ease turmoil in the nation’s real estate market. ICBC, the world’s largest bank by assets, on Thursday said it would provide 655 billion yuan in ...