Bloomberg On Friday morning London time — when the result of a UK referendum will show whether the nation has chosen to leave the European Union — the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank’s Singapore desk could already be selling yen and francs. They and their peers are also primed to pump liquidity into banks fearful of ...

  Bloomberg It’s not quite Brexit. But just two days before the UK goes to the polls, a throng of German academics, politicians and ordinary citizens are pinning their hopes on a different breakaway. Germany’s highest court will deliver judgments today in five separate cases seeking to stop the country from participating in a controversial bond-buying plan that underpinned European ...

  Bloomberg Pent-up demand for dollars may push Nigeria’s naira at least 20 percent weaker when the central bank allows the currency of Africa’s biggest economy to float freely, said analysts including Renaissance Capital Ltd. and the head of Ecobank Transnational Inc. Demand for foreign currency has built up to about US$3 billion since capital controls were imposed 15 months ...