Bloomberg Reforming the Reserve Bank of New Zealand’s monetary policy mandate could potentially result in lower interest rates, the new finance minister said. Requiring the central bank to target full employment as well as price stability when making rate decisions will ensure its objectives are more aligned with the well-being of New Zealanders, Grant Robertson said in a television interview ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. added $1 billion in the third quarter to what it says the bank may face in possible legal expenses. Legal costs could potentially be $3.3 billion more than what the San Francisco-based bank has reserved, Wells Fargo said in a regulatory filing. While that figure was unchanged from the previous three-month period, it constitutes a ...

Bloomberg It was President Donald Trump who dominated the headlines in monetary policy over the past 10 days with his choice of Jerome Powell to chair the US Federal Reserve. Yet the club of central bank chiefs the American is set to join has been making plenty of news. The Fed, now helmed by Janet Yellen, left itself on course ...