Bloomberg Australian policy makers were publicly frustrated by the currency’s stubborn strength when commodities tumbled earlier this decade. Now they’re conspicuously quiet as it fails to keep pace with resurgent resource prices. Since the end of June, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s real effective exchange rate for the Aussie has risen 4 percent, while Westpac Banking Corp.’s Australian export commodity index ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer John Cryan’s troubles range from the company’s mounting legal costs to stricter regulation that’s eroding returns. And there’s at least one challenge he shares with his German rivals: Europe’s most competitive market. “Deutsche Bank still has a lot to deal with, but the German market as a whole is pretty rotten,” said ...

  Bloomberg OPEC members need to stop bickering over output curbs or risk the group becoming irrelevant to global oil markets, according to an analyst who predicted the biggest price crash in a generation. It’s in the interest of all producers to reach a deal that’s aimed at stabilizing prices, which are 61 percent lower than their 2014-highs, said Gary ...