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HSBC bullish on India as a third of world’s bond yields negative

  BLOOMBERG HSBC Global Asset Management is sticking with its bet on Indian sovereign bonds as Asia’s highest yields help drive the strongest foreign demand for rupee debt since October. A pickup in monsoon rains has eased inflation concern and the Reserve Bank of India’s cash injections have improved liquidity, adding to the case for favoring the nation’s debt, according ...

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Brazil banks’ lower provisions seen masking credit-quality woes

  Bloomberg Itau Unibanco Holding SA, Banco Bradesco SA and Brazil’s other major banks are expected to post their first quarter-over-quarter decline in bad-loan provisions in at least a year when they report results in coming days. The good news will probably be short-lived. “The provision decrease doesn’t mean a credit-quality improvement,” Andre Riva, an analyst at GBM Grupo Bursatil ...

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Brexit knocks confidence but the sky hasn’t fallen

  A month has passed since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. While that’s nowhere near long enough for all of the economic aftershocks of Brexit to fully manifest, the evidence thus far suggests grounds for optimism. The FTSE 100 Index of the biggest U.K. companies, which dropped 3.15 percent on the day after the referendum, is now ...

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