Bloomberg Fears of a long spell of low oil prices haven’t shaken Wall Street’s confidence in the sector. With the price of crude languishing around $46 a barrel in New York, the industry’s bankers remain optimistic about their energy investments, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. That’s different from a year earlier, when banks pulled …

Bloomberg The pound rose to its highest since September as weak inflation data in the U.S. weighed on the dollar, while traders are increasingly betting on tighter monetary policy in the U.K. Sterling, which crossed $1.30 and rose against all of its major peers, has largely defied signs that the UK economy is slowing, with some Bank of England policy …

Bloomberg South Africa’s central bank will persist in seeking a court order to set aside an instruction from the nation’s anti-graft ombudsman that its mandate must be changed, even after Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she won’t oppose the regulator’s application. In a report last month, Mkhwebane instructed the legislature to start a process to amend the nation’s constitution to …