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Banks offer to facilitate Russian bond trades

  Bloomberg Major Wall Street banks including JPMorgan Chase & Co, Barclays Plc and Citigroup Inc. are offering to facilitate trades in Russian corporate debt and government bonds, according to Reuters. The move took place in recent days after guidelines from the US Treasury that allowed US holders to wind down their positions, the news agency said, citing client notes, ...

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Norway to raise rates to highest in a decade

  Bloomberg Norway is poised to raise borrowing costs to the most in over a decade as unexpectedly rapid inflation challenges earlier plans for more gradual increases. The central bank will lift its key policy rate by a half-point to 1.75%, according to most economists surveyed by Bloomberg. That would be the highest since March 2012, with investors watching for ...

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Barclays warns of credit pain in return to 1970s inflation regime

  Bloomberg Rising prices amid a US economic slowdown will menace embattled credit markets, if history repeats. The current inflation and growth environment is most akin to the 1973 to 1975 and 1978 to 1980 time periods, when credit markets did badly, according to Barclays Plc. strategists led by Dominique Toublan. “Credit performance was poor then, and we do not ...

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