Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, said it expects to maintain lending margins next year and reassured investors on its outlook for dividends. The bank’s net interest margin should hold steady around 2.7 percent in 2017 even as the Bank of England keeps interest rates at record-low levels, and the firm will generate enough capital to ...

  Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc.’s second-quarter profit jumped 31 percent, beating analysts’ estimates as a surge in trading income made up for a slump in brokerage commissions and investment banking. Net income climbed to 61.2 billion yen ($585 million) in the three months ended Sept. 30 from 46.6 billion yen a year earlier, Japan’s largest securities firm said in a ...

  NEW YORK / AP Sale or no sale, Twitter users are bound to see changes as the beleaguered communications service tries to broaden its appeal to more people and advertisers. A new owner could clean up Twitter and curb some of the nastiness that’s become synonymous with it. Or perhaps a new owner would just show more ads. Or ...