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Draghi’s goodbye gift gets lukewarm response from market

Bloomberg Mario Draghi’s latest and potentially last salvo to boost the euro-area economy risks not being enough. The European Central Bank president, who will leave office in October after spending his entire eight-year tenure crisis-fighting, announced a new round of long-term loans to banks and promised interest rates won’t be lifted from record lows until 2020. The fresh effort to ...

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MUFG beats Credit Suisse to win $500mn bond deal only to stumble

Bloomberg Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. (MUFG) has been on an expansion kick in the debt market. But its first attempt as a sole underwriter on a dollar high-yield bond sale didn’t go so well. The bank’s securities unit bought $500 million of bonds directly from oil and gas exploration firm CNX Resources Corp., with plans to parcel them off ...

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Goldman Sachs cuts 10 staff in commodities unit

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is cutting 10 staff in its commodities division as the bank reviews the footprint of the once-dominant unit, according to a person familiar with the matter. It is cutting seven trading jobs and three sales jobs in Singapore, London and Houston, representing about 5 percent of the unit’s staff, the person said, asking not to ...

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