Bloomberg The debt-trading malaise that hurt US lenders last quarter has extended north of the border, though Royal Bank of Canada’s equities traders helped soften the blow. The lender saw a 12 percent drop in trading revenue from fixed income, currencies and commodities in the three months through January, advancing the trend that affected US banks including JPMorgan Chase & …

Bloomberg Tunisia’s central bank warned over the deteriorating state of the country’s finances and called for additional efforts to curb inflation after the first hike in interest rates since June. The current-account deficit reached an “unprecedented” 11.2 percent of gross domestic product in 2018, according to Governor Marouane El Abassi. The decision to raise the benchmark by 100 basis points …

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, dropping some of its more hawkish comments of the past as the Federal Reserve’s policy pause helped to ease pressure on emerging markets. The seven-day reverse repurchase rate was left at 6 percent for a third month, as predicted by all 33 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Bank Indonesia hiked six …