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Billionaire Arison sells $930mn stake in Israel’s Bank Hapoalim

Bloomberg Billionaire Shari Arison agreed to sell almost 10 percent of Bank Hapoalim Ltd. in what could become one of the biggest deals in Israel’s financial sector. Arison signed a non-binding agreement to sell 49 percent of her investment and philanthropy arm, Arison Holdings 1998 Ltd., to unidentified North America-based institutional investors and an investment firm, according to a Tel ...

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Zimbabwe signs up for $600mn credit line from Afreximbank

Bloomberg Zimbabwe will access a $600 million credit line from African Export-Import Bank in an effort to stave off a foreign-currency shortage that’s afflicted importers of everything from food to fuel. The southern African nation needs the assistance “especially during the foreign-exchange drought, which runs from October to February next year,” Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa said at a ceremony Saturday ...

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BOJ goes from stopping advance in yields to battle decline

Bloomberg After spending a year trying to prevent benchmark yields from rising above zero percent, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) now faces the challenge of stopping them from falling too low. Japan’s 10-year yield has gone from a one-year high in February to slipping below the BOJ’s targeted zero percent level earlier this month amid a bout of global risk ...

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