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Powell stays firm as Trump urges Fed to weaken dollar

Bloomberg President Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar to help boost exports, and is counting on the Federal Reserve to help make that happen. But the central bank’s chairman, Jerome Powell, has made clear it’s not his job. It’s a new twist in the broader pressure campaign the president has brought to bear on Powell to cut interest rates to ...

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PBOC pushes banks to hold interest rates of home mortgages

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has asked commercial lenders not to lower the interest rate of home mortgages from the current level in order to curb the growth of home loans, according to sources. The PBOC offered verbal guidance to state-owned ban-ks, joint stock banks and other commercial lenders, the people said, asking not to be identified as ...

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Singapore to issue five new digital banking licenses to non-bank firms

Bloomberg Singapore will issue as many as five new digital bank licenses to non-bank firms as the island nation seeks to strengthen competition in financial services, according to one of its top regulators. “We welcome firms with innovative value propositions to apply for the new digital bank licenses, even if they have not yet established a track record in banking,” ...

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