Bloomberg Australia’s central bank could increase interest rates eight times in the next two years, former board member John Edwards said. The Reserve Bank of Australia is probably already considering a program of rate increases given its forecasts for inflation returning to target and economic growth to accelerate to 3 percent against a stronger global backdrop, Edwards said in a …

Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE) Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe helped draw the battle lines for the August interest-rate decision, saying that policy makers have time before they need to hike. While some members of the BOE’s rate-setting committee have argued that consumer-price inflation of 2.9 percent means an increase in borrowing costs from a record-low 0.25 percent is required imminently, …

Bloomberg Four years after questioning whether global investment banks would survive the regulatory scrutiny unleashed after the financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts are now singing a different tune. Investment banks are “in better shape and better managed than ever, especially in the U.S.,” analysts led by Kian Abouhossein wrote in a note to clients Monday. “Global investment banks …