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Chile central bank keeps key rate at 3.5 per cent as inflation slows

  Bloomberg Chile’s central bank kept borrowing costs unchanged for the fifth consecutive month as inflation slowed toward the target range, while maintaining its tightening bias. Policy makers, led by central bank President Rodrigo Vergara, left the key rate at 3.5 percent on Tuesday, as forecast by all 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The pause in rates comes after two ...

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Venezuela offers discounted oil in battle for US refineries

  Bloomberg Venezuela is offering oil at the biggest discounts in seven years as the third-largest supplier to U.S. refineries fights to defend its market share from Canadian and Middle Eastern grades. The basket of Venezuelan oil is now more than $12 a barrel cheaper than the benchmark West Texas Intermediate and has averaged a discount of $8.44 this year. ...

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Europe and investment banking are a bad match

  Deutsche Bank is undercapitalized and may be facing “insurmountable headwinds,” James Chappell, an analyst with the private bank Berenberg, wrote in a recent note. He’s not just down on Europe’s biggest investment bank, which he thinks should trade at 9 euros ($10.2) per share rather than the current 14.7 euros — he’s irritated with the entire sector, which is ...

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