August, 2022

• 3 August

  EU banks get $3.8 billion boost from end of negative rates era

  

    Bloomberg Banks’ core business of lending has finally turned more profitable again, as the era of negative interest rates in the euro area comes to an end. The EU’s five biggest banks that have reported results so far showed an increase in net interest income of 3.74 billion euros ($3.82 billion) on the same quarter last year, a jump ...

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• 3 August

  HSBC makes cost of living payment to UK employees

  

    Bloomberg HSBC Holdings’s UK arm is the latest bank to help staff cope with the rising cost of living by making an extra one-time payment. Lower-paid employees will receive the £1,500 ($1,836) boost in their August paychecks, according to an internal memo seen by Bloomberg News. All five of the UK’s largest retail banks have now pledged to pay ...

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• 3 August

  Indonesia keeps dovish tone on steady core CPI

  

    Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank continued to build the case to keep its policy rate unchanged for longer, as it sees subsiding food costs and slower global monetary tightening. “Bank Indonesia will continue to normalise monetary policy, but there is no need to quickly raise interest rates like other countries,” Governor Perry Warjiyo said in a briefing. Core inflation is ...

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• 3 August

  Credit card spending soars as US consumers battle inflation

  

  Bloomberg Mastercard Inc. said spending on its network jumped 18% as US consumers battle once-in-a-generation levels of inflation. Payment volume soared to $1.65 trillion in the second quarter, topping the $1.64 trillion average of analyst estimates in a Bloomberg survey. The company boosted its forecast for revenue growth for the year after it reported a 58% surge in overseas payments ...

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• 2 August

  Stocks decline as US-China tension stirs haven demand

  

  Bloomberg Stocks and US equity futures slid on Tuesday amid escalating US-China tension over Taiwan and deepening worries about a global economic slowdown, driving investors into the safety of government bonds. The Stoxx Europe 600 falls 0.6%, with energy among the few industries bucking the trend after BP Plc hiked its dividend and accelerated share buybacks to the fastest pace ...

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• 2 August

  Goldman Sachs warns against being ‘too early’ in fading recession risk

  

  Bloomberg Investors may be getting overconfident in betting the Federal Reserve may cut interest rates sooner to bolster a flagging US economy, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. strategists. “Looking at the re-pricing of cyclical assets in the US and EU, we think the market might have been too complacent too soon in fading recession risks on expectations of a ...

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• 2 August

  Third auction of UAE’s treasury bonds oversubscribed 5.1 times

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM The United Arab Emirates, represented by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) as the issuer, in collaboration with the central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) as the issuing and paying agent, has announced the results of the third auction of the Treasury Bonds programme (T-Bonds), which is part of the AED9 billion T-Bond issuance programme for ...

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• 2 August

  UAE President, Romanian PM discuss ways to enhance ties

    Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday received a phone call from Nicolae Ciucă, Prime Minister of Romania, during which they discussed cooperation relations between the UAE and Romania, and ways of enhancing and developing them in various fields.They also explored joint cooperation, especially in economic, investment and developmental fields, to ...

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• 2 August

  Gross banks’ assets in UAE hit AED3,442.7b

  

    Abu Dhabi / WAM The central bank of the UAE (CBUAE) has announced that the gross banks’ assets, including bankers’ acceptances, rose to AED3,442.7 billion at the end of May 2022, an increase of 2.9%, compared to AED3,344.8 billion at the end of April 2022. In its report on the monetary & banking developments for May 2022, CBUAE clarified ...

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• 2 August

  Chimera Capital launches new exchange-traded fund on ADX

  

    ABU DHABI / WAM Chimera Capital, an Abu-Dhabi-based investment management firm and subsidiary of Chimera Investment, announced on Monday the launch of the Chimera S&P Turkey Shariah ETF (Bloomberg: CHTRSHIN). The fund is a physical, in-kind, liquid and fully fungible exchange-traded fund (ETF), and will track the performance of Turkey-listed, Shariah-compliant securities. The Chimera S&P Turkey Shariah ETF, the ...

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