Bloomberg China’s central bank injected liquidity into the financial system for a ninth day in the longest run since December as it sought to meet a surge in seasonal demand for cash. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) pumped in 100 billion yuan ($15.5 billion) of cash with 14-day reverse repurchase agreements, resulting in a net injection of 40 billion ...

Bloomberg UK consumers have just one year left to spend about $32 billion of paper 20- and 50-pound notes as the Bank of England (BOE) withdraws them from circulation. The notes, which have been superseded by polymer equivalents featuring artist JMW Turner and mathematician Alan Turing, will no longer be accepted in shops after September 30, 2022, the BOE said ...

Bloomberg Thailand’s central bank held its key interest rate unchanged amid optimism that an economic rebound will hold, as Southeast Asia’s second largest economy loosens growth-stifling restrictions and virus cases ease. The Bank of Thailand voted unanimously on Wednesday to hold one-day repurchase rate at a record-low 0.5% for an 11th straight meeting, as predicted by 19 of 22 economists ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co invested in 10 banks with diverse leadership, acquiring stakes with a total value of more than $60 million, and is giving their customers free access to thousands of ATMs as part of its effort to help address the racial wealth gap. The “investments and commitments” JPMorgan has made in minority deposit institutions, known as MDIs, ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG plans to return 5,000 workers to New York City over the next six months. Many of the returning staff will still have the option of more flexible working arrangements, Christiana Riley, chief executive officer of Deutsche Bank Americas, said in an interview from the Frankfurt-based company’s new US headquarters. “The demise of New York is vastly ...

Bloomberg Bank of Nova Scotia is set to become Canada’s first bank to sell a junior bond known as limited recourse capital notes in a currency other than loonies. Toronto-based Scotiabank is reaching out to US dollar-based investors before deciding to go ahead with the deal. In June, the bank sold LRCNs in the Canadian dollar corporate bond market. Canadian ...

Bloomberg Brazil’s central bank assessed the costs and benefits of bigger interest rate hikes but concluded that its current pace of monetary tightening would be sufficient to bring inflation back to target. The current adjustment has already left interest rates in a restrictive level and uncertainties related to the pandemic justify “accumulating more information about the state of the economy ...

Bloomberg Think the selloff in technology stocks has been bad? If US Treasury yields keep rising, it’s probably going to get worse. That’s the widespread thinking on Wall Street as the surge in yields batters growth stocks that have been trading at lofty levels. That’s helped fuel a 2.9% drop in the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index on Tuesday, led by ...

Bloomberg Gold edged up from the lowest in almost seven weeks as Treasury yields eased following dovish commentary from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. The benchmark 10-year US yield declined after touching the highest since June on Tuesday, boosting appeal of non-interest bearing bullion. The dollar steadied at near the highest since November. During a Senate Banking Committee hearing, Powell ...

Bloomberg Opec sees oil demand continuing to grow to the middle of next decade, even as world leaders prepare for another attempt to avert catastrophic climate change. Global fuel consumption will fully recover from its pandemic slump by 2023, and will keep growing until it hits a plateau shortly after 2035, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) said in ...