July, 2022

• 22 July

  Biden expects to speak with China’s Xi within next 10 days

  

  Bloomberg President Joe Biden says he expects to speak to Chinese leader Xi Jinping “within the next 10 days,” as the US considers whether lifting some tariffs on Chinese imports would help stem rampant inflation. Already-tense relations between the two largest economies have deteriorated over China’s refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “I think I’ll be talking to President ...

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• 22 July

  CIA chief says Russia’s Iran drone deal shows military weakness

  

    Bloomberg The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency said Russia’s interest in buying drones from Iran for its war in Ukraine reveals the poor state of its military. “It’s true that the Russians are reaching out to the Iranians to try to acquire armed drones,” CIA Director William Burns said during a three-hour stop at the Rocky Mountain ...

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• 22 July

  Truss ‘political reinvention’ turns her Tory darling

  

  Bloomberg Liz Truss has undergone a political reinvention to become the favorite to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the Conservative party and UK Prime Minister. The Foreign Secretary campaigned for Britain to remain in the European Union before embracing Brexit with the zeal of a convert after the vote went the other way. And she’s gone from yelling slogans ...

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• 22 July

  Sanctioned Russians will have to declare their assets in EU

    Bloomberg Sanctioned Russians will have to disclose their assets in European Union countries under the bloc’s latest package of measures, and failure to comply could lead to undeclared assets being seized. The measure is part of a suite of actions adopted by the EU on Thursday that also includes a ban on Russian gold imports, new trade restrictions on ...

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• 22 July

  Indonesia bucks tightening trend as interest rate held at record low

  

    Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank kept its borrowing costs unchanged to support economic growth, while signalling it wasn’t in a hurry to join the global interest-rate tightening cycle given muted domestic price gains. Bank Indonesia left the seven-day reverse repurchase rate at a record low 3.5% on Thursday, as predicted by 22 of 36 economists in a Bloomberg survey. The ...

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• 22 July

  Japan keeps interest rates at rock bottom

  

    Bloomberg Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda emphasised his determination to stick with rock-bottom interest rates even if it means a weaker yen after the bank’s latest price forecasts left the door open to continued speculation over policy change. Recent concern that the global economy risks a hard landing as central banks rush to tackle inflation has helped ...

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• 22 July

  Ukraine devalues currency against greenback

  

  Bloomberg Ukraine devalued the official hryvnia exchange rate to protect its foreign-currency reserves as Russia’s invasion ravages the economy. The National Bank of Ukraine (NB) also held its main interest rate unchanged at 25% on Thursday and said that its monetary and exchange-rate policies are aimed at easing pressure on the local currency. It set the hryvnia rate at 36.5686 ...

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• 22 July

  Former BofA banker joins China-focused fund as CEO

    Bloomberg CDH Investments, an alternative investment fund manager focused on China, has hired top Asian dealmaker Alex To as its new chief executive officer, according to people familiar with the matter. To, until recently the co-head of Bank of America Corp’s (BofA) Asia Pacific investment banking, will also become a partner of the fund, one of the people said. ...

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• 22 July

  Goldman slows hiring

    Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to slow hiring and reinstate annual performance reviews as the Wall Street bank looks to rein in expenses. “Given the challenging operating environment, we are closely re-examining all of our forward spending and investment plans to ensure the best use of our resources,” Chief Financial Officer Denis Coleman said on a conference call ...

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• 22 July

  European stocks steady with futures before ECB rate liftoff

  

    Bloomberg European stocks steadied with US equity futures on Thursday as investors braced for the European Central Bank’s first interest rate hike in 11 years, while Russia resumed sending gas to Europe through a key pipeline, dispelling investors’ worst fears. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index and the euro recouped losses following the resignation of Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi. ...

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