Bloomberg Bank of England (BOE)policy makers are being forced to keep stumm just as the outlook is changing, restricting their ability to reinforce signals that lower interest rates could be imminent. The UK’s December 12 election will hamper any attempts to prepare markets for a move at the BOE’s next decision just before Christmas. Officials are now in the customary ...

Bloomberg India’s Yes Bank Ltd, the world’s worst-performing lender in 2019, has posted the globe’s biggest gain over the past month. Its shares have rallied about 50% — the biggest gain among global peers valued at more than $1 billion — after embattled founder Rana Kapoor was forced to sell his holdings in October and a new management team promised ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG shareholders have called for Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing to end his role in supervising the investment banking division amid concern it may distract him from his main job, the Telegraph reported. Deka Investment, one of the bank’s shareholders, called it “unusual” for a CEO to run a division while there’s ongoing restructuring involving 18,000 job ...

Bloomberg Nigerian local-currency bond yields have plunged to 18-month lows as investors pile into the debt after the central bank restricted sales of higher-yielding, shorter-term central-bank securities. The average yield for naira government bonds has dropped 117 basis points to 13.03% since the central bank moved to block individuals and non-bank firms from buying so-called open-market operations (OMOs) on October ...

Bloomberg Vietnam’s Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank plans to raise about $240 million from the sale of a 7.5% stake to foreign investors via a private placement, according to people familiar with the matter. The sale of the 7.5% stake, or 141.5 million new shares and 47 million treasury shares, is expected to be completed by the end of this ...

Bloomberg A Wall Street regulator is opening a probe into Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s credit card practices after a viral tweet from a tech entrepreneur alleged gender discrimination in the new Apple Card’s algorithms when determining credit limits. A series of posts from David Heinemeier Hansson starting railed against the Apple Card for giving him 20 times the credit limit ...

Bloomberg It’s been the same trade all year. A recession is coming, so get defensive. Now the strategy is unwinding and stock managers who toed the line all the way into November have furious catching up to do. That’s bad if you’re in charge of an equity portfolio that’s straggling. But for anyone hoping to ride along with more upward ...

Bloomberg After sending European stocks surging to multi-year highs on trade optimism, investors may hit the brakes on the rally, according to Morgan Stanley. Optimism about a US-China trade deal and receding risks of no-deal Brexit have boosted shares in recent weeks, with the Stoxx Europe 600 Index now less than 2% away from a record high reached in 2015. ...

Bloomberg Saudi Aramco will allow investors to start bidding for shares in the world’s most-profitable company from November 17. The Saudi stock exchange rules prohibits the oil giant from listing additional shares for six months after the start of trading, according to its more than 650-page prospectus. Also, the Saudi government, the company’s sole owner, won’t offer any additional shares ...

Bloomberg Alberta loosened crude-oil production limits for second time in two weeks, exempting new conventional wells from output caps in a bid to spur drilling and boost employment. Alberta is trying to allow more oil production without overwhelming the province’s strained pipeline network.