June, 2019

• 9 June

  UAE’s non-oil private sector improves in May

  

  Dubai / Emirates Business The headline seasonally adjusted Emirates NBD UAE Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) — a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector economy — rose to 59.4 in May from 57.6 in April. This was the third successive monthly increase in the index, with the latest reading signalling a ...

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• 9 June

  Oil drillers cut US activity to 15-month low as prices lag

  

  Bloomberg US crude explorers reduced drilling to a 15-month low as oil dipped into bear-market territory. Working American oil rigs fell by 11 this week to 789, according to data released by oilfield-services provider Baker Hughes. More than half the decline happened in the Permian Basin, the biggest source of American crude. Crude futures traded in New York fell into ...

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• 9 June

  Trina Solar says US tariffs won’t hurt firm

  Bloomberg China’s Trina Solar Ltd., one of largest panel manufacturers, says it’s well insulated from the growing trade dispute with the US. The reason: the last trade dispute with the US. When the US imposed anti-dumping penalties on solar panels imported from China under President Barack Obama, Trina built factories in Thailand and Vietnam to serve American customers, said Steven ...

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• 9 June

  Two bull markets are dueling over fate of global growth

  

  Bloomberg For all the shine and sophistication, for all the jargon, robots and quants, financial markets are still only this: Buyers buying and sellers selling, times a billion. Behind every trade — perhaps far behind — there is an actual human person. Two, in fact. And because humans disagree a lot, markets do too. And do they ever disagree just ...

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• 9 June

  Mideast stocks rise as traders return to work

  

  Bloomberg Middle East stocks generally advanced on Sunday, catching up with emerging-market peers, as traders returned to work following holidays. Gauges in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Egypt climbed following last week’s increase for the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Stock exchanges in the Arab world were closed for most of last week due to Eid al-Fitr, the holiday ...

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• 9 June

  ‘Yuan breaching 7 per dollar within 3 months’

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc expects the yuan to weaken past 7 per dollar in the next three months — a level the currency hasn’t breached in more than a decade. The bank revised its forecasts for the yuan against the dollar because it sees the currency’s decline as a natural offset to higher US tariffs, even if policymakers are ...

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• 9 June

  India eases bad-debt resolution rules

  

  Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) eased rules to give lenders laden with bad debt more time to resolve delinquent accounts and lifted a deadline for pushing defaulters into bankruptcy courts. The directive, which also covers shadow banks, gives lenders 30 days to review a delinquent account and a further 180 days to implement a resolution plan, loosening the ...

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• 9 June

  Blockchain’s appeal limited for retail banks

  

  Bloomberg Retail banks have been slower to embrace blockchain technology and face greater challenges in reaping its potential benefits than their more adventurous co-unterparts in investment-banking world, according to new research from McKinsey & Co. Headwinds for retail lenders to adopt a shared system of distributed computer ledgers to manage day-to-day activities include a tougher regulatory environment for consumer finance ...

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• 9 June

  BOJ to cut negative rate in September: JPMorgan

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will lower its short-term interest rate to -0.3 percent from -0.1 percent in September to head off risks posed by an expected Federal Reserve rate cut, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a research note. Fed cuts are now expected in September and December after escalating US-China trade tensions have raised the risk that ...

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• 9 June

  Draghi’s rate-cut plan fails to sway investors

  

  Bloomberg Mario Draghi’s insistence that he’s determined to revive euro-zone inflation with interest-rate cuts and renewed bond purchases if needed isn’t convincing investors. The European Central Bank president talked a tough game after policy makers extended their pledge to keep borrowing costs at record lows and announced more cheap loans to banks. Yet traders pared bets on a rate cut, ...

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