Bloomberg Indonesia has almost 2,000 banks and a currency that’s plunged 11 percent since January, a combination overburdened regulators hope will prove irresistible to foreign acquirers. The country’s lenders are in much better shape than during the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, and have stood up well to the weakening of the rupiah this year, said Fauzi Ichsan, chief executive ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. CEO Tim Sloan said he’s prepared to keep running the company for much of the next decade, as he shifts from two years of navigating crises to focusing on improving shareholder returns. “There’s growth opportunities everywhere,” Sloan, 58, said in an interview, commenting just two days after the bank’s chairman batted back Wall Street whispers ...

Bloomberg Gold is set to surge over next year as concerns deepen about the widening US budget deficit and a tariff-driven trade war starts to damage the country’s economy, according to Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch . Bullion could average $1,350 an ounce in 2019 as corporate tax reforms worsen the US fiscal balance, Francisco Blanch, head of global ...