Bloomberg Bank of America Corp. (BofA) can favour its own customers in making emergency loans for now, a federal judge ruled as small businesses start to compete for a piece of the $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program. US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher in Baltimore rejected a request to temporarily bar the bank from giving preferential treatment to existing small-business loan ...

Bloomberg The amount of cash commercial banks hold at the Swiss National Bank (SNB) hit a record last week, highlighting officials’ battle to keep the franc from appreciating. Sight deposits increased by 6.9 billion francs ($7 billion) to 634.1 billion francs in the week ending April 10, data published on the central bank’s website on Tuesday showed. The SNB waged ...

Bloomberg Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA is fighting for survival, with a last-ditch plan to convert debt to equity driving its share price down as much as 63% during the first frantic moments of trading on Tuesday. Norwegian Air’s proposal will dilute shareholders already counting their losses after Covid-19 ruined the company’s efforts to return to profitability. The plan calls for ...