Bloomberg China’s central bank injected additional liquidity into the financial system for the first time since June as a growing mortgage-payment boycott and a virus flareup leads to a sense of crisis. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) boosted the size of its daily short-term cash operation to 12 billion yuan ($1.8 billion) from 3 billion yuan, resulting in …

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank’s (ECB) battle to restore its credibility with the financial markets just got a whole lot harder. After a week marked by a fresh crisis in Rome, MLIV readers warn Italian debt risks hitting the danger zone once more — just as a near-imminent recession intensifies the epic plunge in the euro to levels not …

  Bloomberg Nordea Bank Abp’s profit beat estimates in a turbulent second quarter for financial markets, as demand for loans and rising interest rates herald higher income from lending for the biggest Nordic bank. Second-quarter net income rises 2.8% from a year earlier, to 1.05 billion euros ($1.1 billion), according to a statement on Monday. Analysts polled by Bloomberg had …