So much for Brexit triggering an immediate economic meltdown. While the pound has fallen 13 percent against the dollar since Britons voted to leave the European Union in June last year, the country’s economy has performed respectably, so far. A year later, however, signs the UK is approaching a tipping point are building. Britons are paring their spending on clothing, ...

Imagine that tomorrow, some smart kid invented a technology that let people or physical goods pass through walls, and posted instructions for how to build it cheaply from common household materials. How would the world change? Lots of industries would probably become more productive. Being able to walk through walls instead of being forced to use doors would make it ...

Bloomberg HDFC Bank Ltd is threatening to end Axis Bank Ltd’s decade-long reign as the largest arranger of rupee-denominated corporate bonds as sales climb to a record for a third straight year. India’s most valuable bank has managed Rs481.5 billion ($7.5 billion) of offerings so far this year, jumping 11 notches from 2014 to number two on Bloomberg’s league table. ...

Bloomberg Citigroup Inc. has chosen Frankfurt as its newest trading hub in the European Union and plans to present that option to its board of directors this week for approval, according to a person with knowledge of the decision. The choice to expand the bank’s existing broker-dealer in the German city means it will create between 150 and 250 new ...

Bloomberg BNP Paribas SA agreed to pay $246 million to settle Federal Reserve allegations that the bank failed to keep its currency traders from using electronic chatrooms to manipulate prices. The Fed ordered the Paris-based lender to improve its oversight and internal controls for foreign-exchange trading. BNP Paribas also agreed to $350 million settlement in May with the New York ...

Bloomberg The new chief executive officer of Piraeus Bank SA is trying to make up for lost time. CEO Christos Megalou must offload 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion) in bad loans by the end of the year under a restructuring plan worked out with the European Central Bank’s supervisory arm months before he took over at the largest Greek lender. ...

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. exercised an option to buy the rest of Golden Capital Management, an ‘active quant’ investment firm that helps oversee $10 billion. The bank, which built up a 65 percent stake in Golden in 2011, said in a statement that it finished purchasing the rest at the start of this month. It didn’t disclose the terms. ...

Dubai / Emirates Business Following a period of economic uncertainty, Europe’s recovery has gathered speed over the last year and the outlook has improved considerably. In its recent edition of EMEA Perspectives, J.P. Morgan Private Bank’s Gabriele Zaninetti analyses the current investment landscape in Europe and shares his views on why Europe offers a rich source of attractive investment opportunities. ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG struggled to reduce operating costs, setting up the German airline for a difficult second half with pressure on fares set to intensify. The shares fell as much as 4.3 percent, the biggest intraday drop in three months, despite Lufthansa raising its 2017 operating profit forecast to gradually catch up with analyst estimates. While first-half earnings almost ...

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.’s operating environment remained challenging in the first half of the year, Chief Executive Officer Rupert Hogg said, dashing expectations of an early recovery for the carrier that’s cutting jobs following the first annual loss in eight years. “We said that we expected the operating environment in 2017 to remain challenging,” Hogg said in a statement ...