Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced two additional rounds of unscheduled bond-purchase operations, fighting back against traders betting it will further relax its yield-curve control policy. The central bank offered to buy unlimited amounts of two- and five-year notes at a fixed yield, along with 600 billion yen ($4.5 billion) of one-to-10 year bonds. That was on top ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc is working on a fresh round of job cuts that will be unveiled in a matter of weeks, Chief Executive Officer David Solomon said in his traditional year-end message to staff. “We are conducting a careful review and while discussions are still ongoing, we anticipate our headcount reduction will take place in the first ...

  Bloomberg Multiple stress points are emerging in credit markets after years of excess, from banks stuck with piles of buyout debt, a pension blow-up in the UK and real-estate troubles in China and South Korea. With cheap money becoming a thing of the past, those may just be the start. Distressed debt in the US alone jumped more than ...

  Bloomberg An Argentine economist drafting recommendations for a more business-friendly government that could emerge from 2023 elections has a message for foreign investors eyeing potential regime change. “We’re not interested in hot money in Argentina,” Carlos Melconian, head of think tank Ieral, said. “Capital inflows that create quick profits and get confounded with the element of confidence don’t interest ...

  Bloomberg A sharp slump in the kwacha that’s placing upward pressure on inflation may prompt monetary policymakers to raise interest rates for the first time in more than a year when they meet in early 2023. Consumer prices rose an annual 9.9% this month, compared with 9.8% in November, interim Statistician-General Mulenga Musepa told reporters in the capital, Lusaka. ...

  Bloomberg US equity-index futures gained on Thursday as technology shares rallied on the penultimate trading day of what’s been a brutal year for financial markets. Contracts on the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 rose more than 0.6% following gains for Asian technology stocks earlier amid signs China is easing a regulatory crackdown. Contracts on the S&P 500 were up about 0.3%. ...

  Bloomberg Beset by war, soaring costs and higher interest rates, 2022 was a year many European companies — and stock market investors — would prefer to forget. Carefully crafted investment strategies were thrown into disarray, first by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent energy crisis, then by surging borrowing costs that lifted Germany’s 10-year bond yield, Europe’s benchmark, ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) has announced that the subscription to the Unemployment Insurance Scheme will start on January 1, 2023, calling on UAE nationals and residents who work in the federal government and private sector to subscribe. Stemmed from the Federal Decree-Law No. 13 of 2022, the Unemployment Insurance Scheme aims ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Jarwan, President of the Global Council for Tolerance and Peace, and Rustam Minnikhanov, President of Tatarstan, discussed opportunities for cooperation between the council and Tatarstan. During the meeting, Al Jarwan talked about the council’s main activities and its efforts to promote the values of tolerance and peace worldwide, in addition to ...

  Dubai / WAM Mohammad bin Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, and Hamad bin Faisal Al Malki, Minister of Cabinet Affairs of Bahrain, discussed strengthening the cooperation between their ministries. The meeting’s participants addressed the relations between the UAE and Bahrain, especially in light of the support of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and ...