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HSBC to leave best lending rate in Hong Kong unchanged at 5%

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc and Standard Chartered Plc maintained their best lending rates Thursday even as the city’s monetary authority raised its base rate to keep pace with the Federal Reserve, a move that will likely stave off some pressure on homeowners and businesses for now. Hours after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) said it would raise its ...

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RBI’s rupee defense sending bill rates to three-year high

  Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) intervention in the foreign-exchange market to protect the rupee that tested a series of record lows in recent months is pushing shorter rates to multi-year highs. The government’s borrowing costs for a three-month Treasury bill surged to the highest in three years at an auction. The weighted average call rate, an interbank ...

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Visa to dole out annual raises for junior employees

  Bloomberg Visa Inc said it will dole out annual raises for more-junior employees earlier as it seeks to help staffers battling once-in-a-generation levels of inflation. The payments giant will award the pay increases to employees at the level of senior vice president and below during its fiscal fourth quarter, which ends on September 30, Chief Financial Officer Vasant Prabhu ...

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Banco Santander posts $2.4bn net income in Q2

  Bloomberg Banco Santander SA earnings beat expectations, as rising revenue helped the Spanish retail-banking giant offset the impact of increased costs and surging inflation. Spain’s biggest lender posted net income of 2.35 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in the second quarter, exceeding the analyst consensus of 2.25 billion euros as net interest income jumped 7.9% from the first three months ...

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Deutsche Bank’s DWS sees more outflows in Q2

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG’s asset management unit saw outflows for a second consecutive quarter, marking an abrupt end to a period of growth that saw assets under management touch a record last year. DWS group’s clients pulled $25.4 billion in the three-month period, according to a statement. That missed the 403.3 million-euro consensus of inflows forecast by analysts polled ...

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Stocks push higher amid bets on slower Fed hikes

Bloomberg Stocks rise on Thursday as the prospect of a slower pace of Federal Reserve monetary tightening filtered across global markets. Investors are turning their focus to the busiest day of the earnings season along with key economic data. Mining and energy shares gained in Europe as oil advanced. Solar energy and renewables stocks rallied in Europe and premarket trading ...

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Alibaba’s gains from primary listing plan wiped out in two days

  Bloomberg Euphoria surrounding Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s primary listing plan has evaporated in just two sessions, as focus shifts to the firm’s earnings announcement due next week. Shares of the e-commerce giant slid 1.8% on Thursday, putting it back at levels seen before announcing it would seek the listing status. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the move may draw ...

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NMDC group, James Fisher sign deal on marine, subsea projects

  Abu Dhabi / WAM National Marine Dredging Company Group and James Fisher and Sons plc (James Fisher) signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on key projects and opportunities in the oil and gas sector as well as decommissioning, offshore wind and marine civil construction industries worldwide. Combining the expertise, global footprint, scale and capabilities of their subsidiaries, NMDC ...

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Lufthansa passengers face day of turmoil as staff strike

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG passengers in Frankfurt and Munich faced an almost complete shutdown of operations on Wednesday as a walkout by ground crew forced Europe’s largest airline group to cancel more than 1,000 flights at its two busiest German hubs. The airline axed the services at short notice, slamming unions for causing major damage by escalating a wage dispute ...

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Wizz Air deepens cuts to its summer schedule

Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc will deepen cuts to its summer schedule, doubling down on efforts to combat disruption from a staffing squeeze that’s upended Europe’s transport industry. After announcing a 5% reduction in peak-season seating, Wizz, the region’s third-biggest discount carrier, will extend the cuts to about 10%, Chief Executive Officer Jozsef Varadi said. “We’ve been going through some ...

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