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CIBC’s traders give results a boost on rates products

  Bloomberg Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s (CIBC) traders gave the bank’s earnings a boost last quarter amid a strong stretch for interest-rate products. Revenue from the capital-markets division rose to C$1.48 billion ($1.09 billion) in the three months through January, up 14% from a year earlier, the Toronto-based bank said. Overall profit topped analysts’ estimates for the fiscal first ...

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Investment firm founder charged with $2b fraud

  Bloomberg North Carolina investment firm founder Greg E Lindberg, who is awaiting retrial on charges he tried to a bribe state official, was indicted in a separate case alleging he orchestrated a $2 billion insurance fraud scheme. Lindberg, 53, and two others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Charlotte, court records show. They’re accused of improperly taking ...

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Ueda warns against magic solutions, sticks to BOJ script

  Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor nominee Kazuo Ueda warned against any magical solution to produce stable inflation and normalise policy as he largely stuck to the existing central bank script in the first parliamentary hearing to approve his appointment. During a session that lasted almost three hours, Ueda said the BOJ should continue with stimulus for now, while ...

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