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  Bloomberg HDFC Bank Ltd.’s quarterly profit rises 20%, almost in line with analyst estimates as higher interest income boosted India’s biggest lender by market valuation, setting the tone for the nation’s bank earnings. Net income for the quarter ended September stood at 106.1 billion rupees ($1.3 billion), compared to 88.3 billion rupees a year ago, according to an exchange ...

  Bloomberg Asian governments spent about $50 billion in foreign-exchange reserves last month — the highest level since March 2020 — to defend their currencies from a relentless advance in the US dollar. Exante Data Inc., a firm that specialises in tracking global capital flows, estimates emerging Asian nations excluding China spent nearly $30 billion with dollar sales in the ...

  Bloomberg The yen fell to its lowest level in more than 30 years in the aftermath the hotter-than-expected US inflation report, before reversing the move in a whiplash trade that raised market chatter of potential intervention. The Japanese currency falls to 147.67 per dollar, the weakest since August 1990, before bouncing back in choppy trading. It fluctuated around the ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. will team up to offer savings accounts to users of the tech company’s credit card. “Apple Card users will be able to open the new high-yield savings account and have their daily cash automatically deposited into it — with no fees, no minimum deposits and no minimum balance requirements,” Apple said. ...

  Bloomberg A UK lender is offering to pay bondholders higher interest to swap debt rather than risk tapping sterling’s chaotic market for fresh cash. With no sign of volatility easing yet, Shawbrook Group wants to keep investors happy by moving them to new notes that offer an 8.099 percentage-point premium over UK gilts, an extra 100 basis points versus ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves dropped to the lowest level in three years as assistance from multilateral lenders and friendly countries is yet to flow. The stockpile fell by $303 million to $7.59 billion, according to central bank data. The reading is the lowest since July 2019 and covers less than six weeks of imports. “This decrease was entirely ...

Bloomberg China’s yuan fixings have steadied over the past week, spurring speculation that the central bank wants to cap currency losses using a method last seen in the US-China trade war in 2019. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) set the yuan reference rate near 7.1 per dollar for a seventh session, a move that would support the currency around ...

  Bloomberg Governor Andrew Bailey put the Bank of England’s BOE) credibility on the line with a pledge to end emergency gilt purchases as scheduled on Friday, in the face of mounting market pressure to extend the program. Investors dumped UK assets after Bailey told pension funds they have just “three days left” to sort out their liquidity positions before ...

  Bloomberg India’s inflation likely peaked in September but that’s unlikely to convince the central bank at this point to halt its tightening cycle, according to DBS Bank Ltd. “A bump up is expected in September numbers,” DBS Bank Senior Economist Radhika Rao said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Juliette Saly and Rishaad Salamat on Wednesday. “But the good ...

  Bloomberg Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA is clearing the final hurdles for its crucial €2.5 billion ($2.4 billion) share sale, with Chief Executive Officer Luigi Lovaglio close to having enough backing from investors to convince banks underwriting the deal. Parties are fine-tuning the details in order to start the share sale next week, people familiar with the ...