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NatWest to fold three businesses into one in push for growth

  Bloomberg NatWest Group Plc is bringing together its commercial, securities and international units into a single franchise, hoping to improve relations with customers. NatWest Markets and RBS International, whose assets are kept separate from the bank’s retail operations under British ring-fencing rules, will become a single unit along with the ring-fenced Commercial arm by July, the London-listed lender said ...

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Bear markets show pain across Asia equities as Fed hikes near

  Bloomberg Weeks of fretting over the Federal Reserve’s plan to combat inflation with higher interest rates is coming to fruition as Asian stock markets tumble into the bear markets and technical corrections. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index slid as much as 2.7% on Thursday, pushing it down more than 17% from its recent high, after Fed Chair Jerome Powell ...

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LG Energy doubles in debut after Korea’s biggest IPO on record

  Bloomberg South Korea’s LG Energy Solution soared in its first day of trading in Seoul, following the country’s biggest initial public offering on record. The world’s second-largest battery maker soared to close 68% above its IPO price of 300,000 won, even as the nation’s benchmark Kospi tumbled into a bear market. Now worth over $98 billion, it’s bigger than ...

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