The Bank of Korea (BOK) held its policy rate steady for a fourth-straight meeting and pledged to retain a restrictive policy stance for a considerable time as it seeks to put a lid on consumer inflation. The central bank kept its seven-day repurchase rate at 3.5% as predicted by all 15 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News. The BOK pledged in …

BLOOMBERG  Wells Fargo & Co has hired a couple of mergers and acquisitions bankers from Barclays Plc and Citigroup Inc as it builds up its Wall Street advisory business, according to a person familiar with the matter. Tom Drake is joining the San Francisco-based bank from Barclays as a managing director in its M&A group focussing on healthcare services and …

BLOOMBERG  Senator Elizabeth Warren called on the Federal Reserve to halt interest-rate increases as the US inflation rate slid to a more than two-year low. “Take yes for an answer, Chair Powell, and let’s stop with the rate increases,” Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said in an interview. She has famously called Jerome Powell, the central bank’s chairman, a “dangerous man …