Bloomberg The euro-area faces elevated risks to financial stability as it emerges from the pandemic with high debt burdens and “remarkable exuberance” in markets as bond yields rise, according to the European Central Bank (ECB). The language, echoing former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s description of the dot-com bubble in the 1990s as “irrational exuberance,” highlights mounting concerns that the ...

Bloomberg Swiss lawmakers will debate whether banking regulations should be tightened when a parliamentary committee sits to discuss the losses suffered by lenders in the collapse of Archegos Capital Management LP, SonntagsZeitung reported. The conduct of Credit Suisse AG, the biggest loser to emerge from the blowup of Archegos, will be among the topics at the meetings, the newspaper reported. ...

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) will boost its minimum hourly wage to $25 an hour by 2025 from a current $20, according to its Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan. The move follows four years of pay increases that brought the company’s minimum wage to an hourly $20 in 2020 from $15. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based lender will also require ...

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co, the biggest funder of fossil-fuel companies globally, is pledging a 35% reduction in “operational carbon intensity” for its oil and gas portfolio by the end of this decade. The commitment is among steps announced by the largest US bank, which agreed last year to align its financing activities with the United Nations’ Paris climate agreement. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is rearranging how it sells fixed-income trading products as it seeks to lower costs without sacrificing revenue from the company’s biggest source of income. The new model will divide the coverage team into two groups, one focusing on flow and liquidity and another on client solutions. That’s in an effort to provide purely electronic or voice ...

Bloomberg Equity investors in Asia are actively screening hospitalisation rates and watching predictions on virus peaks, as several countries in the region struggle with a fresh jump in cases. The pandemic’s resurgence has already worsened Asian stocks’ underperformance against their global peers this year. With efforts by countries to reopen their economies taking a hit, the severity of restrictions, the ...

Bloomberg Stocks fall with US futures on Wednesday as concerns about faster inflation and Covid-19 flare-ups in some nations rattled investors. Oil dropped for a second day. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index fell the most in a week, with commodity and leisure shares leading the drop. Contracts on all three US benchmarks were lower, led by those on the Nasdaq ...

ABU DHABI / Emirates Business Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), the regional leader in the new build, repair, maintenance, refit and conversion of naval and commercial vessels, was awarded on Tuesday an AED3.5 billion contract by the Ministry of Defense (MOD) and UAE Navy, to build Falaj 3-class Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs). The new contract is the largest-ever order received ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) has revealed its cultural programme for the 30th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair (ADIBF), which will be held between May 23-29. In advance of its participation at ADIBF, SZBA has revealed its cultural programme during the week of the fair, which will comprise panel discussions involving winners of ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ADCCI) and the Russia-UAE Business Council discussed the means of boosting trade and economic cooperation between businesses in Abu Dhabi with their counterparts in Russia. This came during a meeting on Tuesday between ADCCI Director-General Mohamed Helal Al Mheiri and Sergey Gorkov, Chairman of Russia-UAE Business Council, and ...