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Powell steers for economic soft landing thwarted twice

Bloomberg Maybe the third time Jerome Powell will get lucky. The Federal Reserve chairman looked close to pulling off a soft landing of the ebbing US economy twice this year — at the start of May and the end of July. Each time though he saw his plans blown off course via an escalation of trade tensions by president Donald …

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Deutsche Bank vows to avoid capital raise as ECB cuts burden

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Christian Sewing vowed that the bank will execute one of the largest restructurings in its history without the need for extra shareholder funds as he seeks to build credibility with investors. The lender’s common equity Tier 1 ratio — a key metric of financial strength — will be above 13% throughout the …

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Morgan Stanley fined $22mn by France

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley was fined 20 million euros ($22.1 million) by French regulators after the bank’s London desk was accused of using “pump and dump” tactics to manipulate sovereign bond prices. The enforcement committee of the Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF) said the bank manipulated the prices of 14 French government bonds and 8 Belgian bonds in June 2015. The …

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