Bloomberg China’s central bank boosted the supply of cash in the financial system, helping push the benchmark money-market rate down from a three-month high. The People’s Bank of China sold 180 billion yuan ($27 billion) of seven-day reverse-repurchase agreements, which inject funds into the banking system. That’s the biggest single-day offering of the contracts since June 29. This comes …

  Bloomberg Bank regulators from Tokyo to Frankfurt are joining forces to resist a US-backed push for stiffer capital rules that could heap billions of dollars of new requirements on lenders. Highlighting the stakes, top regulators from Europe, Japan and India are pressing their case in public, shedding light on divisions in the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision as it …

  Bloomberg Egypt plans to secure a $12 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund to ease a crippling dollar squeeze and restore confidence in the economy, an accord that would be the fund’s biggest aid package in a region pummeled by political unrest and the plunge in oil prices. Stocks surged after authorities said on Tuesday evening they will …