Bloomberg Deutsche Bank said trading accelerated again over the past weeks, one of the few large investment banks to give guidance on the quarter after a strong first half of the year. “July started off pretty muted for the markets in general,” Mark Fedorcik, who heads the investment bank, said at a virtual conference hosted by Barclays Plc. “We saw ...

Bloomberg Norway’s central bank is poised to raise its interest rate this week in the first such post-pandemic tightening among nations with the world’s 10 most-traded currencies. Responding to a buoyant economic recovery, Norges Bank will lift its benchmark on Thursday by a quarter-point from zero, according to all but one of the 15 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. That places ...

Bloomberg India should put off a plan to shorten settlement of stock transactions as it raises the risk of default by local brokerages and dims the country’s allure to global investors, a lobby group said. Capital market regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has announced a proposal to allow stock exchanges to offer next-day settlement in some stocks ...