Bloomberg China’s room to ease monetary policy to aid the slowing economy is being limited further by price rises due the ongoing swine fever epidemic, economists said. Analysts from Nomura International Ltd and Changjiang Securities Co warned that surging consumer inflation has become a major constraint on the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), and the likelihood for major monetary easing …

Bloomberg Investors are bracing for the dollar to keep appreciating through at least early 2020 even though the Federal Reserve looks poised to cut rates and the risk of a US recession remains elevated. The dollar has already surprised investors by holding steady even after Fed reductions in July and September. Now, with the world’s growth outlook decidedly downbeat, Columbia …

Bloomberg Kenya should do more than removing interest-rate caps to boost access to finance and credit extension, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Africa director said. “There is also a need to foster more competition in the banking system,” Abebe Selassie said in an interview in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. The sector should “have effective credit bureaus and quick resolution of disputes,” …