BLOOMBERG Global stocks fell, striking a more cautious note after Wall Street’s powerful second-quarter rally lost steam at the end of last week. Chemical and construction firms paced declines in Europe, while banking stocks outperformed. Among the biggest individual movers, Sartorius AG slumped 15% after issuing a bigger-than-expected profit warning. In Asia, disappointed hopes for further stimulus pushed down Chinese ...

BLOOMBERG India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE) is planning to offer derivatives based on its bond indexes, according to people familiar with the matter, as it seeks attract more investors to its platform. The NSE has already applied to the Securities Exchange Board of India for approval and is aiming to launch the corporate debt product by September, the people said. ...

BLOOMBERG Jerome Powell will be in the Capitol Hill spotlight a week after the Federal Reserve paused its most aggressive tightening campaign in decades, with investors watching for clues on whether central bankers are indeed leaning toward further interest-rate hikes. The Fed chair will deliver the central bank’s semi-annual monetary policy report to the House on Wednesday and the Senate ...

BLOOMBERG The bull-market rally in US stocks is about to run out of steam, according to Citigroup. Strategists at the bank led by Scott Chronert reiterated their call for the S&P 500 Index to tumble to 4,000 by year-end, and initiated a new target of 4,400 by mid-2024, or just below June 16’s 4,410 close. A lack of concrete earnings ...

BLOOMBERG Customers Bancorp Inc purchased $631 million of loans that belonged to Signature Bank, the latest example of a financial firm snapping up at a steep discount assets associated with a failed US lender. The purchase from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) was at 85% of the portfolio’s book value, the West Reading, Pennsylvania-based bank said in a statement. ...

BLOOMBERG Nationwide Building Society and Atom Bank Plc announced increases in mortgage rates, joining a flurry of UK lenders who are raising prices in response to inflation. Nationwide said in an email that it would raise fixed rates by as much as 0.7%, while Atom Bank announced increases from 0.25% to 0.6%  on certain products due that same day. “With ...

BLOOMBERG Bangladesh’s central bank raised interest rates and said it will allow the currency to float freely, pledging to keep monetary policy tight to rein in inflation at a decade high. The repurchase agreement rate will increase 50 basis points to 6.5%, Governor Abdur Rouf Talukder said at a briefing in Dhaka. The reverse repo rate was renamed the standing ...

ABU DHABI / WAM H.H. Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani, today discussed the prospects of further cementing cooperation following the two countries’ recent announcement to promote their relations to strategic partnerships. This came as the UAE top diplomat received his Italian counterpart in Abu Dhabi Sunday to ...

BLOOMBERG A North Korean satellite launch that ended in failure will provide a trove of information about the secretive state’s rocket programme as South Korea salvages large sections from the bottom of the sea. South Korea released photos of a 14.5-metre (15-yard) portion of the North Korean rocket that failed in flight shortly after takeoff on May 31. South Korea’s ...

BLOOMBERG Taiwan expects satellite service by UK provider OneWeb will cover the entire island by the end of this year, the Central News Agency (CNA) cited Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang as saying in an interview. Tang said the service expansion will provide more options for Low Earth Orbit  (LEO) satellites to Taiwan, according to the report. Backed by ...