Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, and cut its outlook for economic growth, as it seeks to support an uneven recovery as foreign outflows pressure country’s currency. Bank Indonesia kept the seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record low of 3.5% on Tuesday, as expected by all 35 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The central bank said ...

Bloomberg US futures fluctuated, struggling for direction as investors weighed corporate earnings and recent spikes in virus cases. A weaker dollar boosted oil, while government bond yields climbed. Contracts on the S&P 500 turned lower on Tuesday, while those on the Nasdaq 100 held a modest gain. A seventh-straight session of declines in the US dollar allowed oil to breach ...

Bloomberg International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) shares jumped in extended trading after the company reported its biggest revenue gain in eleven quarters, driven by demand for cloud services and suggesting Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna’s turnaround plan is starting to bear fruit. Sales increased 1% to $17.7 billion in the three months ended March 31, the Armonk, New York-based company ...

Bloomberg Oil steadied near $67 a barrel as the benefits of a weaker dollar were offset by the sweep of the coronavirus pandemic across key importer India. Brent futures traded little changed, paring an earlier decline as the dollar slipped, making commodities priced in the currency more attractive. Yet India reported record Covid-19 infections on Monday in a further blow ...

Bloomberg Natural gas is falling out of favour with emissions-wary investors and utilities at a quicker pace than coal did, catching some power generators unaware and potentially leaving them stuck with billions of dollars of assets they can’t sell. Citigroup Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among the banks that strengthened their financing restrictions on thermal coal under pressure ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is replacing its global pricing engine for emerging-market currencies in London with one in Singapore, drawn by surging trading in Asia and the increasing importance of the Chinese yuan. Locating new and more powerful computer hardware in the city-state will help the bank shave vital fractions of seconds from the time it takes to execute orders ...

Bloomberg ABN Amro Bank NV agreed to pay 480 million euros ($574 million) to end a Dutch investigation that found “serious shortcomings” in the lender’s processes to combat money laundering. The amount will be booked in the first quarter and the lender expects a “modest” loss as a result, according to a statement on Monday. As part of the settlement, ...

Bloomberg Rising defaults have prompted India to tighten oversight of corporate bond sales, causing issuance to slump in a blow to a long-sought goal of expanding the market. Offerings of rupee notes have fallen to 43.8 billion rupees ($584 million) this month, the slowest start to a financial year since 2008. That’s due in part to rules that took effect ...

Bloomberg Britain’s Treasury and the Bank of England are weighing the potential creation of a central bank digital currency, joining authorities from China to Sweden exploring the next big step in the future of money. The government and central bank on Monday announced the creation of a task force to coordinate on the possibility of BOE-issued digital money for use ...

Bloomberg Investors managing $11 trillion have called on the world’s biggest banks to phase out financing of fossil-fuel companies and throw their weight behind the goals of the Paris climate agreement. Asset managers, including Federated Hermes Inc.’s EOS division and Pacific Investment Management Co., have asked 27 banks to commit to eliminating emissions across their operations by 2050, including those ...