April, 2021

• 13 April

  Ex-BOJ member Sakurai sees no rate cuts without fresh crisis

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is highly unlikely to deepen its negative interest rate without a fresh economic crisis on a massive scale, according to former board member Makoto Sakurai, whose term ended last month. “The BOJ didn’t lower rates” even at the height of the pandemic shock last year in March, Sakurai said in his first interview since …

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• 13 April

  Goldman Sachs to open new office in Birmingham

  

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is opening a new office in Birmingham, marking the investment bank’s second UK location outside London. The new building is set to open in the third quarter of 2021 and will eventually have several hundred staff across a number of divisions, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday. Engineering will be the first business …

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• 13 April

  Indian bank fined for misselling its riskier debt to individuals

  Bloomberg India’s markets regulator fined Yes Bank Ltd. for claiming that riskier bonds it sold to individual investors were as safe as term deposits. Securities & Exchange Board of India ordered Yes Bank to pay $3.3 million after it “deliberately misrepresented” the Additional Tier 1 notes, “by suppressing the inherent risks of these bonds and distorting facts to mislead their …

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• 13 April

  Goldman joins PineBridge to go bearish on Indonesian rupiah

  

  Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank says the rupiah is “very undervalued” following a two-month slide. Investment banks and money managers are predicting further losses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says climbing US yields and a potentially firmer dollar will keep hurting Indonesian assets in the near term, while PineBridge Investments Asia Ltd. says the rupiah will keep sliding due to the global …

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• 13 April

  Bond yields climb as US futures steady before CPI

  

  Bloomberg Bond yields climbed and US futures steadied as traders awaited inflation data, a Treasury auction and corporate earnings to assess the market outlook. Bitcoin hit a record. The yield on the 10-year US benchmark headed back toward 1.7%, with rates across Europe rising in sympathy. Gains in European shares were led by tech shares, while most US stock futures …

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• 13 April

  Liquidity-obsessed China stock traders snub upbeat earnings

  

  Bloomberg Stock investors in China are ignoring a spate of recent bullish earnings as worries about further liquidity tightening continue to weigh on market sentiment. A 1200% jump in Tesla Inc-supplier Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co’s first-quarter earnings guidance was followed by a slump of as much as 7.7% in its shares on Tuesday. In the previous session, Suofeiya Home …

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• 13 April

  Oil tops $60 as investors weigh near-term demand outlook

  

  Bloomberg Oil gained, topping $60 a barrel, as investors continued to assess the recovery in consumption globally. Futures in New York rose as the dollar fell, making commodities priced in the US currency more attractive. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the US economy was poised for stronger growth, but he cautioned that the pandemic remains a threat. That’s …

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• 13 April

  Walmart, India’s Adani to build massive warehouse

  

  Bloomberg Walmart Inc’s e-commerce unit, Flipkart Online Services Pvt, signed a pact with tycoon Gautam Adani’s conglomerate to build one of the largest retail warehouses in India as the US giant gears up to battle Amazon.com Inc and homegrown rivals in the South Asian nation. The partnership marks the entry of Adani, India’s fastest-rising billionaire, into the three-way fight for …

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• 13 April

  UAE, Serbia discuss cooperation

  BELGRADE / WAM Mubarak Saeed Burshaid Al Dhaheri, UAE Ambassador to Serbia, and Nikola Selakovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, have reviewed means to further develop cooperation between the two countries. During the meeting, the two sides commended the sincere friendship and fruitful cooperation between the UAE and Serbia thanks to the distinguished relationship between the leadership of the …

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• 12 April

  Stocks fall from record highs; bond yields rise

  

  Bloomberg US stocks pushed lower while investors weighed the start of corporate earnings season and an influx of bond supply that loom as speedbumps to a roaring rally. Tech shares turned lower again after Nvidia Corp. said it’s offering the company’s first server microprocessors, extending a push into Intel Corp.’s most lucrative market. Intel shares fell more than 4% on …

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