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RBI holds rates as inflation, growth slow

Bloomberg India’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged for a second straight meeting as inflation and economic growth slowed in Asia’s third-largest economy. The benchmark repurchase rate will stay at 6.5 percent, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement in Mumbai on Wednesday, in line with most of the forecasts in a Bloomberg survey. The RBI, which ...

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Wells Fargo poised to miss interest income estimates

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co’s Tim Sloan warned investors that the firm’s net interest income (NII) would be less than analysts are predicting, and shares of the company dropped the most in more than a month. Fourth-quarter NII will be flat compared with the previous three months, when the bank collected $12.6 billion in interest, the chief executive officer said ...

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Traders bet BOC rate-hike pause may come before Fed’s

Bloomberg Money-market traders, already having written off a hike at Wednesday’s Bank of Canada (BOC) meeting, are beginning to doubt that policy makers will pull the trigger next month either. While the Federal Reserve is widely expected to proceed with another quarter-point interest-rate increase in two weeks, overnight index swaps are pricing in just 16 basis points of tightening by ...

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