Recent Posts

India’s Modi deflects on Adani links

  Bloomberg Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued to deflect opposition pressure over his said links with billionaire Gautam Adani who’s battling allegations of fraud and market manipulation from a US short seller. Modi spoke in the upper house of parliament, his second speech in the legislature in as many days, amid chants of “Modi-Adani are brothers” from the opposition ...

Read More »

Credit Suisse’s path to profits gets steeper after grim quarter

Bloomberg Credit Suisse group AG posted a bigger-than-expected loss for the fourth quarter and unprecedented client outflows, exacerbating the difficulty for Chief Executive Officer Ulrich Koerner in returning to profitability by next year. Shares in the Swiss bank slid 10% on Thursday after it posted a fifth-straight quarterly loss, of 1.39 billion Swiss francs ($1.5 billion). While outflows were concentrated ...

Read More »

Riksbank increases rate, seeks to shore up krona

  Bloomberg The Riksbank raised borrowing costs by half a percentage point, pledged to start bond sales and declared it wants a stronger krona, as its new governor set out his inflation fighting credentials. The krona jumped after the decision on Thursday to lift the Swedish central bank’s interest rate to 3% and accelerate the unwind of quantitative easing, in ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend