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Banks’ presence shrinks in US corporate bond market

Bloomberg The biggest issuers of US corporate bonds are easing up on selling new securities, which could translate to gains for investors holding the debt. Banks and other financial companies have sold around $50 billion of bonds so far this year, down more than 40 percent from the same period a year ago. For the largest US banks the decline ...

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‘Free float would send naira tumbling’

Bloomberg A free float of Nigeria’s naira would cause capital flight and a “massive devaluation,” according to central bank Governor Godwin Emefiele. The nation’s current system of multiple exchange rates had produced the “most optimal results when compared with other emerging markets in recent times,” Emefiele told reporters after a meeting of the monetary policy committee (MPC). Emefiele was responding ...

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Yes Bank lifts India equities to first gain in three days

Bloomberg Indian equities — that fluctuated between gains and losses — capped their first advance in three days, boosted by a rally in shares of a private lender after it announced a new chief. The benchmark S&P BSE Sensex climbed 0.2 percent to 36,195.10 at the 3:30 pm close in Mumbai, after swinging at least twelve times between a high ...

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