Bloomberg Belarus said Maria Kalesnikava, one of the Belarusian opposition’s top organisers, was detained at the border with Ukraine after being reported missing as President Alexander Lukashenko targets leaders of month-long protests against his 26-year rule. Two of Kalesnikava’s colleagues on the united opposition’s coordinating council, spokesman Anton Radniankou and its executive secretary Ivan Krautsou, crossed into Ukraine, leaving Kalesnikava ...

Bloomberg Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) officially started its campaign for a new leader, with the man all but assured to take over from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe praising the democracy that allowed his political rise. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who already has enough backing from the LDP’s powerful factions to win the party vote next week, formally ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank (RBA) will boost its bond-buying program or cut interest rates to help revive the economy from its first recession in almost 30 years, a survey showed. Seven of 11 economists predict the Reserve Bank will ramp up quantitative easing by expanding its bond purchasing program, with UBS Group AG’s George Tharenou positing that this could begin ...

Bloomberg State Bank of India priced one of the riskiest bank capital securities at a record-low coupon, in the latest sign that investors are confident policy makers’ stimulus steps will help large issuers weather the pandemic. India’s biggest bank will sell 40 billion rupees ($545 million) of the so-called Additional Tier 1 bonds at a coupon of 7.74%. That’s the ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank will pay out as much as $16 million to its private banking clients after failing to warn them that putting their savings into low-risk investments could cost them money. “Our review shows that approximately 900 customers were not adequately informed about the expected negative net return for the affected low-risk strategies,” Bente Nielsen, head of private banking ...

Bloomberg The Malaysian ringgit has defied the odds to outperform most of its Asian peers. Now investors will be watching to see if it survives the trials of September. A three-month rally in the currency could come to a halt when FTSE Russell announces a decision on whether it’ll retain ringgit bonds in its World Government Bond Index. A lesser ...

Bloomberg Singapore’s financial regulator said it will introduce measures to enhance banks’ access to local and US dollar funding to protect the city state’s financial sector against the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. From September 28, the new facility will provide banks and financial firms an additional channel to borrow Singapore dollar funds at longer tenors and will allow ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG may have spied on other employees beyond former star banker Iqbal Khan and its ex-head of human resources, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported, citing people familiar with the matter and a probe of the bank’s activities by banking regulator Finma. The Swiss bank surveilled a former employee in the US as well as an ex-staff member ...

Bloomberg European stocks dropped after President Donald Trump stoked tensions with China and virus cases across Germany and the UK continued to rise. Treasury yields fall and oil dropped to a two-month low. Technology shares led losses in the Europe Stoxx 600 Index, while the FTSE 100 Index was buoyed by the weaker pound. EasyJet Plc shares slumped after the ...

Bloomberg India’s sovereign bond market is on tenterhooks again. Just days after announcing measures to lower yields, the central bank has given signals that traders interpret as a lack of interest from authorities in pushing rates down further. The yield on the five-year bond climbed 29 basis points so far in the three trading sessions to Tuesday while the rate ...