Patrick Drahi, the telecoms billionaire whose debt-fuelled expansion spree is running out of steam, is finding it hard to break free of a downward markets spiral. A full-blown bear attack is still ongoing after last month’s profit warning from Altice SA, the Drahi holding company. Hedge funds have piled up negative bets on a stock that’s fallen 56 percent since …

With the ongoing synchronized pick-up in global growth, systemically important central banks will likely be more willing and able in 2018 to start and, in one case continue, the normalisation of monetary policy. But what is true for the central banking community as a whole is more nuanced when assessed at the level of individual institutions. Here is the outlook …

Bloomberg With an initial Brexit deal out of the way, pound traders will be focussing on whether optimism over that lasts and shifts the Bank of England’s thinking this week. Even with an agreement to move Brexit talks on to trade and no expectations for the BOE to change interest rates, news on either front could drive the currency, according …