July, 2021

• 11 July

  Credit Suisse, JPMorgan partner for sustainable food fund

  

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG and JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s asset and wealth management business are working together to develop a new investment strategy focused on sustainable nutrition. The fund will invest in public companies that “address the ties between nutrition, health, biodiversity and climate, with a particular focus on nutrition’s societal and environmental aspects,” Credit Suisse said in a ...

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• 11 July

  Kenyan bank stocks to drive market gains

  Bloomberg Kenya’s biggest banks are the key to further gains for the benchmark Nairobi stock index this year as investors bet on the nation’s recovery from the pandemic, according to EFG Hermes Kenya. The Nairobi All Share Index has gained 16% in 2021 to the highest in more than three years. Expectations that the central bank will approve risk-based lending, ...

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• 11 July

  Megacap tech shares roar again in fashion as haven from slowdown

  

  Bloomberg Investors are getting excited about Big Tech again. With resurgent doubts about the strength of the post-pandemic boom, traders are shifting back into the tech behemoths whose dominance of high-growth industries leaves them poised to keep sales and profits rising even if the economy slows. That’s fuelled a run of outperformance since the beginning of June and marks a ...

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• 11 July

  S&P 500 earnings record is on line with peak growth

  

  Bloomberg All through the pandemic era, buying stocks when corporate America delivers its quarterly reporting card has been a reliable winning trade. But the streak may be coming to a close. While second-quarter profits may look robust when banks start reporting on July 13, the forecast earnings increase of 64% for all firms in the S&P 500 Index probably marks ...

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• 11 July

  G-20 finance chiefs vow to overcome tax deal hurdles

  

  Bloomberg Top officials from the US, Germany and France each expressed confidence that a global tax deal endorsed at the Group of 20 meeting in Venice has enough momentum to overcome political obstacles in Washington and within the European Union (EU) in time for it to be finalised in October. “There’s more work to be done, but I’m really hopeful ...

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• 11 July

  India raises issue of easing travel restrictions with Gulf

  New Delhi / WAM India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, who deals with the Gulf and the rest of the Arab world, V Muraleedharan, has held a meeting with Indian ambassadors in the Gulf to discuss initiatives to resume passenger flights to India from their countries of accreditation. “Our ambassadors were requested at that meeting to take up with ...

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• 11 July

  Oil posts first weekly loss since May on Opec+ supply stalemate

  

  Bloomberg Oil falls this week for the first time since May after days of volatile trading in the wake of Opec+’s stalemate over a production increase in the near term. Futures in New York declined 0.8% this week, although the US crude benchmark closed higher amid a broader market rebound. A stronger dollar makes commodities priced in the currency less ...

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• 10 July

  China’s central bank pivots to easing as growth risks build

  

  Bloomberg China’s central bank cut the amount of cash most banks must hold in reserve, a move that went further than many economists had expected and suggested growing concerns about the economy’s faltering recovery. The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will reduce the reserve requirement ratio by 0.5 percentage point for most banks, according to a statement. That will unleash ...

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• 10 July

  India signals tolerance for higher yields with sale of new bond

  

  Bloomberg India’s central bank set a coupon of 6.10% for the new 10-year bond sale, higher than that of the current benchmark, signaling a slight tolerance for higher yields after months of trying to cap them at 6%. The government sold 140 billion rupees ($1.9 billion) of the new bond as part of a 260-billion rupee sale, the Reserve Bank ...

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• 10 July

  BOE asks staff to work one day a week in office

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of England (BOE) will ask staff to come into the office at least one day a week from September as UK companies plot the return of workers following plans to relax guidance to stay at home. Employees at the central bank will be expected to organise regular “team days” in the office, Chief Operating Officer Joanna Place ...

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