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This is why Libor’s moving higher

  Bloomberg Instances like the London Interbank Offered Rate better known as Libor are enough to make those who remember the 2008 financial crisis shudder with apprehension. Back then, bank borrowing costs ticked up as investors fretted over the soundness of lending unsecured short-term money to potentially troubled financial institutions. Nowadays, though there’s plenty of handwringing about the state of ...

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Banks face Brexit bill of $66K per UK employee moved abroad

  BLOOMBERG The cost for banks wanting to move their U.K. staff abroad after Britain decided to leave the European Union is 50,000 pounds ($65,660) per employee, according to consulting firm Synechron Inc. Synechron’s analysis, which was published on Monday, included the cost of relocating staff, hiring and firing other employees and setting up new offices in cities that could ...

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Bank of Israel holds rate as home prices rise

  Bloomberg The Bank of Israel left its benchmark interest rate near zero, as growth slowed, home prices rose and exporters braced for the impact of the U.K.’s vote to leave the European Union — Israel’s largest trading partner. The decision to hold the rate at 0.1 percent was forecast by all 17 economists in a Bloomberg survey. The central ...

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