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TCMB pushes rates to max before referendum

  Bloomberg With two weeks to go before a referendum that could remodel Turkey’s political landscape, the Central Bank of Turkey (TCMB) pushed interest rates to the upper reaches of its monetary framework and depleted its policy tool of choice: flexibility. The bank’s average interest rate was 11.47 percent, near the mathematical limit of its current funding mix. That leaves ...

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RBI in neutral may be reading India’s prices wrong

  Bloomberg As India’s monetary policy committee begins its two-day meeting, the inflation-targeting central bank may be using flawed price measures as the basis for its swing to neutral policy. All 50 economists in a Bloomberg survey predict the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will leave the repurchase rate unchanged at 6.25% on Thursday, as price pressures appear to be ...

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Deutsche Bank loses three senior executives after bonuses slashed

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which slashed bonuses for a second straight year, saw several senior employees leave after paying out deferred compensation for previous years. At least three executives — Kevin Burke, Neil Hosie and Patrick Kelly — departed from the lender’s trading unit in Asia, and one executive, Holger Knittel, took a new job in the bank’s home ...

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