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Regional US banks weigh costly bond sales as depositors exit

BLOOMBERG Beleaguered US regional banks are assessing whether bond sales to replace lost deposits are worth the cost, as credit investors weigh whether they’re worth the risk. The arrival of quarterly bank earnings reports has spurred speculation on which financial institutions will brave an unpredictable bond market. Average corporate note yields jumped above 6% in the past 12 months and ...

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Swiss National Bank can’t exclude further tightening, says Jordan

BLOOMBERG The Swiss National Bank (SNB) may need to raise borrowing costs more, according to President Thomas Jordan. “We can’t exclude that we might have to tighten monetary policy again,” Jordan told reporters in Washington, where he’s attending meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. The SNB has increased interest rates by 225 basis points in the ...

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‘ECB should slow and pause interest rate hikes in May’

BLOOMBERG A quarter-point increase in interest rates is the most the European Central Bank (ECB) has to deliver at its next meeting, Governing Council member Mario Centeno said, playing down concerns over the strength of underlying inflation. Either a pause, or a slowdown in the pace of hikes is possible as headline price gains in the euro zone retreat and ...

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