Bloomberg The European Union called for new elections to be held in Belarus, just as President Alexander Lukashenko makes plans to travel to Moscow in the coming weeks to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The EU’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, wrote in Journal du Dimanche that a new ballot is needed, with the Organization for Security and Cooperation ...

Bloomberg The military coup in Mali raised alarm across West Africa, a region under threat for years from extremists that can ill afford more instability. Yet at home, it’s largely seen as a harbinger of progress. Weeks of public unrest and the final ouster of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita was the culmination of anxiety over his failure to steer the ...

Bloomberg China’s biggest banks are suffering their worst profit decline in more than a decade as a cascade of loans to businesses across China are going bad. Reporting their first-half earnings on Sunday, China Construction Bank Corp., (CCB) the world’s second-largest lender by assets, said profit slid 11% in the period, while Agricultural Bank of China Ltd., (AgBank), China’s third ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) has plenty of room to add more monetary stimulus to fight UK’s economic slump, including negative interest rates if needed, Governor Andrew Bailey said. “We are not out of firepower by any means,” he said at the Federal Reserve’s annual policy symposium, being held virtually instead of the traditional venue at Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “To ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG has discovered fraud at its international wealth management business, two years after it was criticized by a regulator in a similar case that rattled the bank and raised questions about controls. The Swiss lender dismissed a Zurich-based banker who forged documentation on an over-the-counter contract for an African wealth management client, according to people familiar ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG has submitted a bid for some of Wirecard AG’s German assets, but the administrator of the insolvent payments company considers it too low. The offer from Germany’s largest lender for Wirecard Bank and some related companies was one of several, the people said. All the non-binding bids were well below $119 million, which Wirecard administrator Michael ...

Bloomberg Rupee traders, lulled into a sense of complacency by the Reserve Bank of India’s massive dollar purchases, are in for a rude awakening as the monetary authority takes a break from soaking up the greenback. The rupee was the best-performing currency in Asia, up 0.6% to 73.43 to a dollar. It is up about 2% for the week, the ...

Bloomberg Nigeria’s central bank’s decision to resume the supply of dollars to money changers is raising the risk unscrupulous traders will profit from the country’s multiple exchange rates, according to Rand Merchant Bank. The regulator said that it will sell dollars from September 7 to foreign-exchange agents for the first time since March, when the country closed its air borders ...

Bloomberg Most Middle Eastern equity markets advanced on Sunday, with major gauges heading for the best monthly performance since April amid growing optimism regarding a coronavirus vaccine and higher oil prices. The main indexes in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia were all headed to the best monthly advance in four months, with Dubai’s DFM General Index leading the increase ...

Bloomberg Concern about tighter liquidity in China is reverberating through the nation’s financial markets. Government bonds are heading for a fourth month of declines, a rally in stocks has been slowed, while the yuan has strengthened to its highest level since January. The yield on China’s sovereign bonds due in a decade climbed 10 basis points this month to 3.08%, ...