April, 2018

• 24 April

  Stocks turn mixed; Treasury yields breach 3 percent level

  

  Bloomberg Major US equity indexes followed European and Asian stocks higher as the corporate earnings season gathers pace. Benchmark 10-year Treasury yields pierced the 3 percent level for the first time since 2014, while the dollar retreated from the highest level since January. Corporate earnings remained in focus with 180 S&P 500 firms reporting this week. Alphabet Inc. slipped as …

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• 24 April

  Cryptocurrencies rise as April rally exceeds 75%

  

  Bloomberg The world’s biggest cryptocurrencies rose again on Tuesday, extending their April rally deep into its fourth week and taking this month’s increase to more than 75 percent. Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and EOS helped lead the advance, prices compiled by Bloomberg and Coinmarketcap.com show. Market leader Bitcoin climbed 4.4 percent; its trading volume in the 10 biggest exchanges has topped …

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• 24 April

  LSE heads to confront ‘behavioural issues’

  Bloomberg London Stock Exchange Group Plc’s directors should be prepared to confront “behavioural and performance issues” among management, according to a review that absolved its board of blame in the acrimonious departure of former CEO Xavier Rolet. Rolet abruptly left LSE in November amid a battle between the 217-year-old bourse’s board and activist investor TCI Fund Management, which wanted Rolet’s …

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• 24 April

  Aramco set to increase oil-trading volume to 6 million barrels a day

  

  Bloomberg Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest oil exporter, plans to trade as much as 6 million barrels a day, a jump in volume that would put it in the top tier of companies that buy and sell crude and refined products. The trading arm of the state-run giant known officially as Saudi Arabian Oil Co. currently handles between 3.3 million …

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• 24 April

  Goldman says oil rally won’t hurt demand

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. sees oil’s rally the same way as Saudi Arabia: it won’t check the world’s soaring thirst for crude. Oil’s surge to the highest level in more than three years will in fact spur fuel demand as swelling reserves of Middle East petrodollars are reinvested overseas and stimulate the global economy, Goldman’s head of commodities research …

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• 24 April

  M&A in clean-energy loving Germany could sully green bonds

  

  Bloomberg Angela Merkel’s clean-energy push may turn out to be less ‘green’ than expected for bondholders caught up in the upheaval of Germany’s energy industry. In the latest redrawing of the power map as the nation moves away from nuclear and fossil fuels, EON SE will take over Innogy SE from rival RWE AG, along with 850 million euros ($1 …

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• 24 April

  Banks’ push for Libor substitute gains pace on ‘Sonia’ new version

  

  Bloomberg Tarred by a fixing scandal that struck at the height of the financial crisis, bankers and investors for years have been grappling with finding a replacement for the Libor benchmark used to set borrowing rates on trillions of loans and derivatives. Now the Bank of England has finally unveiled a key part. On Tuesday, the BOE for the first …

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• 24 April

  Euro bulls feel fatigue as signs of slowing economic growth cloud ECB path

  

  Bloomberg Some euro bulls are wondering if the party is over, for now. The outlook for the past year’s best-performing major currency is being clouded by skepticism the European Central Bank will be able to tighten policy as early as previously thought, given signs of slowing economic growth. OppenheimerFunds Inc.’s multi-asset money manager Alessio de Longis is moving toward a …

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• 24 April

  Deutsche Bank mulls cuts to US cash equities

  

  Bloomberg Barely two weeks into the job, Deutsche Bank AG’s Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing is considering a retreat that could mark the end of the bank’s two-decade quest to compete with Wall Street. Sewing is weighing extensive cuts to the lender’s cash equities business in the US and may announce details as part of a wider restructuring of its …

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• 24 April

  Banks told by EU to solve their $134 trillion Brexit headache

  

  Bloomberg The European Union spurned UK calls for a legislative fix to the threat posed by Brexit to trillions of dollars of financial contracts, telling banks and insurers to solve the problem themselves. Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s financial-services policy chief, said the private sector must take the lead in ensuring that existing contracts can continue and not be disrupted when …

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