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Some stocks surge as Japan redesigns currency notes

Bloomberg Japan announced new currency note designs today, sending shares of several somewhat obscure companies soaring. Glory Ltd — a provider of cash sorting machines — rallied as much as 19 percent, the most in more than 11 years, after the Ministry of Finance said that it plans to circulate new bill designs by the first half of the fiscal ...

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Big foreign lenders could face new risk rules under Fed’s plan

Bloomberg The Federal Reserve is proposing a new approach for overseeing foreign banks such as Deutsche Bank AG, Barclays Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG that’s expected to require some of them to hold bigger stockpiles of easy-to-sell assets to guard against losses. Fed board members voted 4-1 to seek comment on its plan for a new system that closely ...

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Trumps says US economy doing well despite ‘destructive’ Fed

Bloomberg President Donald Trump fired a fresh broadside at the Federal Reserve for raising interest rates last year, saying the economy is in good shape “despite the unnecessary and destructive actions” taken by the central bank. In a tweet, Trump added that trade agreements with China, Canada and Mexico are “moving along nicely, there is little or no Inflation, and ...

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