Milan / AFP Italy’s biggest bank, UniCredit, announced plans on Tuesday to slash 14,000 jobs and raise billions of euros in fresh capital as the country gets to grips with political instability and a banking crisis. The bank, one of the worst performers in European bank stress tests, confirmed it would need to seek 13 billion euros ($13.8 bn) ...

  Frankfurt am Main / AFP The ECB said it would open an inquiry after its refusal to extend a deadline for Italy’s troubled Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank (BMPS) was leaked to the media before the lender was formally notified of the decision. “An internal inquiry will be launched,” a spokesman for the Frankfurt-based European Central Bank said, ...

  DUBAI / Reuters Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has received a licence to open a branch in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first Japanese bank to establish a presence in the kingdom. The bank, part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has played a central role in the Saudi government’s recent financing activity, in April helping to arrange a $10 billion loan, ...

  Bloomberg Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce stands by its cash-and-stock bid to buy U.S. lender PrivateBancorp Inc. and is willing to wait out a market rally to complete the deal, Chief Executive Officer Victor Dodig said. “We worked long and hard at getting the right consideration in place in terms of cash and stock,” Dodig said in a Bloomberg ...

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc and other Wall Street banks can breathe a sigh of relief after the Federal Reserve said that it would give them more time to meet Volcker Rule requirements to unload hard-to-sell stakes in private-equity firms and hedge funds. Banks can be granted as long as five years from the current July 21 compliance date ...

  Bloomberg China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. is selling a 50 percent stake in a pipeline unit to investors including China Life Insurance Co. for 22.8 billion yuan ($3.3 billion) as it seeks funds to expand its natural gas business. China Life will pay 20 billion yuan for a 43.86 percent stake in the pipeline, while a division of State ...

  Bloomberg China’s industrial output and retail sales growth both accelerated in November, government data showed on Tuesday, in a sign of stabilisation for the world’s second-largest economy. Industrial output rose 6.2 percent in the month, ahead of both October’s figures and economists’ predictions of 6.1 percent in a Bloomberg News survey. Retail sales rose 10.8 percent on-year in nominal ...

  Bloomberg India’s inflation grew at its slowest pace in two years as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s move to scrap high-value currency notes dented demand. Consumer prices rose 3.63 percent in November from a year earlier, the Statistics Ministry said in a statement in New Delhi on Tuesday. That compares with the 3.9 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey ...

  Bloomberg Coal demand will “stall and plateau” over the next five years as declines in Europe and North America are offset by growing consumption in India and southeast Asia, according to the International Energy Agency. The fuel’s share of total electricity generation will fall to 36 percent in 2021 from more than 41 percent in 2013, the Paris-based agency ...

  Bloomberg Spain must make further efforts to reduce long-term unemployment and continue its budgetary adjustment process, the International Monetary Fund said, while noting that the nation’s economic recovery remains robust. In its concluding statement after its assessment of the country’s economic performance, the Washington-based institution said Spain witnessed an “impressive recovery” helped by reforms, fiscal loosening and the European ...