Bloomberg The European Central Bank didn’t overstep its mandate by setting up a quantitative-easing program to stave off deflation, judges at the European Union’s top court ruled. The ECB’s bond purchasing program is in line with the law, the EU Court of Justice said, dismissing the latest in a series of challenges from critics who argue the tool deployed by ...

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley is optimistic on emerging-market bonds looking ahead to 2019. Some of its clients less so. “We’ve spent the last two weeks discussing our year-ahead outlook with investors. We received pushback on our constructive view on EM fixed income,” Morgan Stanley strategists including James Lord wrote in a note. “Chief among concerns is the global growth outlook and ...

Bloomberg Urjit Patel’s shock exit as governor of the Reserve Bank of India has roiled financial markets. The rupee dropped as much as 1.6 percent against the dollar in early trading on Tuesday, reacting to Patel’s decision to quit nine months before the end of his three-year term for “personal reasons.” Patel’s RBI had been at loggerheads with the government ...