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Wells Fargo says Fed growth cap is limiting small-business relief

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. said it can’t fully meet demand from small businesses rushing to participate in a US relief program because of constraints imposed by the Federal Reserve on the bank’s growth. The company has capacity to lend $10 billion to small-business clients under the $349 billion US program, but customers already have expressed more interest than that, ...

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African central banks tackle coronavirus’s impact

Bloomberg African central banks have joined the global wave of emergency meetings and unusual measures to cushion their economies against the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. While many of the central banks in the region target inflation and have to prop up volatile currencies, they’ve also used non-traditional policy tools in addition to aggressively cutting interest rates to salvage economic ...

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BOJ maintains buying of 5-10 year bonds

Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) set itself up to buy more bonds in the key 5-to-10 year maturities, showing an intent to maintain yield-curve control amid growing expectations of further debt-fueled stimulus from the government. The central bank offered to buy 350 billion yen ($3.2 billion) of the tenor on Monday, the same as the previous regular operation. That’s ...

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