June, 2022

• 6 June

  Denmark’s PM says she’s open to grand coalition

  

  Bloomberg Denmark’s prime minister said she’s open to a grand coalition that would include her political rivals in what would be the first such move in the Nordic country in more than four decades. Mette Frederiksen said the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine had made her back the idea because the government and the opposition have worked closely ...

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• 6 June

  Capitol riot apologists go unpunished as memories of January 6 horror fade

  

  Bloomberg The deadly assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 shocked viewers watching live around the world and, at least in the moment, infuriated Republican congressional leaders who fulminated among themselves against the role Donald Trump and his allies played in egging on the rioters. But the short-lived horror over the worst attack on the seat of US ...

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• 6 June

  Mexico’s ruling party to expand its power in polls

    Bloomberg Mexico’s ruling Morena party is projected to expand its power further beyond President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s traditional southern strongholds in gubernatorial elections, winning four of six elections in states it doesn’t currently control. The election is a litmus test of Lopez Obrador’s support after three and a half years of rule, and of the strength of opposition ...

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• 5 June

  China raises pressure on banks to help developers

  

    Bloomberg Chinese banks are facing growing pressure to support cash-strapped developers after months of pleas by regulators failed to boost lending to the industry. Local branches at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have called for meetings with banks in multiple cities since last week to assess why loans have slowed, along with the difficulties faced by banks and ...

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• 5 June

  Deutsche Bank plans multi-strategy push into private credit

  

    Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is planning a fresh push into private credit across a range of strategies, according to people familiar with the plans. The plans include raising money from external investors to expand its offering in the $1.2 trillion market. The lender is seeking to raise about 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion) initially from new and existing investors ...

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• 5 June

  Canadian banks issue flurry of bonds as stagflation fears mount

  

    Bloomberg Canadian banks have already raised more cash in bond markets than in the whole of 2021 as jitters about the global economy and conditions in the financial markets run high. With almost seven months to go in 2022, Canadian bank sales of corporate bonds in the domestic and international markets are close to C$168 billion dollars ($133.6 billion) ...

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• 5 June

  ECB’s Villeroy says inflation is too strong and too broad

  

    Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) must pare back stimulus as inflation is too strong and too broad, Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said. In a speech at an economics conference in Paris, the Bank of France chief said that even a measure of core inflation — which strips out the impact of surging prices of food ...

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• 5 June

  Hungary raises key interest rate

    Bloomberg Hungary raised its key interest rate after the currency falls close to an all-time low following the central bank’s decision to slow the pace of some of its monetary tightening. The one-week deposit rate was raised by 30 basis points to 6.75%, highest effective rate in the EU and matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Deputy ...

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• 5 June

  Mexico’s central bank cuts growth forecast to 2.2% for 2022

    Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank cut its growth forecast for this year and next, as the country’s recovery continues to sputter amid supply chain shortages and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Banxico, as the central bank is known, sees gross domestic product expanding 2.2% for this year in the main scenario of its quarterly inflation report released Wednesday. ...

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• 5 June

  Philippine peso drops

    Bloomberg The Philippine peso has weakened beyond a key level of support to a three-year low, paving the way for further declines. The currency slid past support around 52.50 per dollar that had held since the middle of March as it tumbled as much as 0.5% to 52.76, the weakest since March 2019. The peso came back under pressure ...

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