Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) is widely expected to boost its support for the UK economy again amid signs that recovering from the pandemic-induced recession will be harder than hoped. Economists predict the central bank will expand its bond-buying program by 100 billion pounds ($125 billion), taking it to 745 billion pounds, and investors are watching keenly for any ...

Bloomberg UBS Group AG and Credit Suisse Group AG are likely to face worsening credit quality and falling demand for wealth-management and investment-banking services because of the pandemic, according to the Swiss National Bank (SNB). Credit quality is expected to deteriorate both in Switzerland and abroad, the national bank said in its annual Financial Stability Report. A stock market correction ...

Bloomberg Norway’s central bank signalled it might be ready to raise its main interest rate from a crisis low in about two years, as an historic wave of stimulus helps revive the economy. The bank left its benchmark deposit rate at a record low of zero, as expected, after delivering three cuts earlier in the year to steer the richest ...