International News

  Bloomberg As the U.K. agonizes over its relationship with Europe, the Bank of England is readying for turmoil. With just 10 days before a referendum that could see Britain withdraw from the European Union, central bankers are putting the defenses in place to shore up market confidence and the financial system if that happens. Tuesday will see the first ...

  Bloomberg Cheaper oil prices since 2014 have probably been of little net benefit to the global economy and may even have been a drag on growth, according to the European Central Bank. “While most of the oil-price decline in 2014 could be explained by the significant increase in the supply of oil, more recently the lower price has reflected ...

  Bloomberg Germany’s 10-year bond yields are set to climb from the all-time low reached last week, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Benchmark yields fell to a record 0.009 percent on Friday. While economists have reduced their year-end yield estimates since January, they don’t foresee that level as sustainable. The median forecast of 19 economists in a Bloomberg survey ...

  Bloomberg Jean-Claude Juncker and Vladimir Putin may offer clues about the way forward for a controversial project to expand Russia’s gas interconnections with Europe this week. The European Commission president meets the Russian leader at a conference in St. Petersburg and may discuss ways a Gazprom PJSC-led consortium could be allowed to double the capacity of the Nord Stream ...

  Bloomberg The 32-year-old FTSE 100 Index, synonymous with the U.K. stock market, is about to get some competition. The benchmark’s four-letter moniker is local shorthand for laypeople and professionals to describe the daily gyrations of the nation’s $3.3 trillion equity market. Now, Lenexa, Kansas-based rival Bats Global Markets Inc. is now trying to muscle in on the FTSE 100’s ...

  Tokyo / Tribune News Service Japan’s Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry has decided on a plan to relax the floor area ratio of buildings by 1.5 times, or up to an additional 300 percent, depending on respective conditions. The move is so that hotels can be rebuilt as bigger hotels on the same land area, The Yomiuri Shimbun ...

  New Delhi / Tribune News Service The Enforcement Directorate (ED) said it has attached properties worth Rs.1,411 crore of business tycoon Vijay Mallya and his company United Breweries (Holding) Ltd in a case of alleged diversion of Rs.430 crore from an IDBI Bank Ltd loan to his Kingfisher Airlines Ltd to purchase properties overseas. ED, on its Twitter account, ...

  New Delhi / Tribune News Service The Delhi government fined five prominent private city hospitals Rs 700 crore for not treating poor patients as mandated by the law, underscoring the scanty healthcare options available to the Capital’s economically weaker sections (EWS). Government rules stipulate 10% of all patients admitted to private hospitals must be poor and treated free of ...

Shanghai / AFP Small-time investor Tracy Li lost more than $3,000 of her hard-earned salary from working at a bank after China’s stock market crashed last summer, wiping out trillions of dollars in valuations in just days. A year later, and she has been burned twice, betting government intervention to prop up the market after the rout would guarantee good ...

  Washington / AFP The unexpected downturn in the US jobs market has once again removed an interest rate hike from the table as the Federal Reserve meets on monetary policy this week. Analysts say the dismal May jobs report released on June 3, the worst in almost six years, and still-weak inflation will stay the hand of the Federal ...