Bloomberg Global finance ministers and central bankers pledged to use all their tools, including fiscal policy, to support demand amid a “highly uncertain” outlook and elevated risks. “The outlook is highly uncertain and subject to elevated downside risks,” including trade tensions, policy uncertainty and geopolitical risks, according to a communique issued by the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), the …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc may partially exit stock trading in some developed Western markets as part of a cost-cutting drive by Noel Quinn, the interim chief executive who wants the top job on a permanent basis. Equities sales and trading units in France, Germany, US and the UK are likely to be scaled back, according to people familiar with the …

Bloomberg Japan has various ways to deploy fiscal stimulus if economic conditions warrant such action, according to Finance Minister Taro Aso. The nation’s economic fundamentals remain stable for now, but the government continues to use fiscal stimulus in a nimble manner, Aso said at a press conference in Washington, where the Group of 20 nations’ finance ministers and central bank …