Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc, which has the biggest investment bank in Saudi Arabia, says foreign investors are getting ready for their first significant stock purchases in the kingdom as an upgrade to emerging-market status looks likely. It’s ‘inevitable’ that MSCI Inc., whose classifications can influence billions of dollars of asset allocations, will add Saudi Arabia to its emerging-market benchmarks, Majed ...

Bloomberg UniCredit SpA, Italy’s biggest bank, reported a six-fold jump in third-quarter profit, driven by the sale of its Pioneer Global Asset Management unit. Net income rose to 2.82 billion euros in the three months through September from 447 million euros a year earlier, the Milan-based bank said in statement on Tuesday. Revenue fell 3.9 percent to 4.65 billion euros ...

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is considering a small cut to its inflation projection for this year in a quarterly report to be released next week, according to people familiar with the central bank’s discussions. The BOJ may lower its forecast for core inflation from 1.1 percent for the fiscal year ending in March 2018, said the people, who ...