October, 2018

• 22 October

  Facebook’s biggest boondoggle is hyping video

  

  Facebook has been accused of misleading advertisers about the viewership of its video content. The important question isn’t whether the social-media company didn’t tell advertisers as soon as it knew it had inflated the numbers (it says it did) but whether the video-content boom, which the social network has actively fuelled since 2014, reflects any consumer demand. In 2016, the ...

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• 22 October

  Technology shares gain after China rally; dollar strengthens

  

  Bloomberg Tech shares pushed the Nasdaq Composite Index higher, while the broader US equity market was mostly little changed in the wake of a rally in Asian stocks after Chinese officials pledged to support the world’s second-biggest economy. The dollar strengthened, while the pound slumped and Italian bonds gave back most of their gains. In China, the Shanghai Composite Index ...

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• 22 October

  Value stocks not as popular as touted

  

  Bloomberg There’s a lot of chatter about a global rotation into value stocks, but the data doesn’t quite back it up. During this month’s market sell-off, the MSCI World Value Index outperformed growth stocks, fueling speculation about a switch into cheaper equities. Yet EPFR Global’s fund flow data show that in the week that ended October 17, which included the ...

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• 22 October

  Euro-area banks facing funding cliff consider reliance on ECB

  

  Bloomberg Euro-area lenders are facing a cliff edge for their funding, and some are hoping the European Central Bank will help them out. Around 722 billion euros ($832 billion) of long-term loans granted to banks by the ECB will start maturing from 2020, and new regulatory standards mean replacement funds could be needed as soon as next year. One concern ...

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• 22 October

  European lenders prepare to report on tumultuous quarter

  

  Bloomberg Investors in Europe’s perennially underperforming banks are no strangers to disappointing earnings, but the third quarter brought an unusually large array of scandals and market turmoil that could test their conviction. The standoff over Italy’s budget, a massive money laundering scandal in Denmark and geopolitical tension chilling trade are only a few of the events that hammered banks. It ...

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• 22 October

  Financial system able to withstand easing for now: BOJ

  

  Bloomberg The Bank of Japan said the financial system remains stable and growth in bank lending continues to support the economy, signalling it’s comfortable that lenders are coping with its record monetary easing program for now. Banks “have maintained their active lending attitudes,” the central bank said in its semiannual financial system report on Monday. “The financial cycle has shown ...

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• 22 October

  Goldman urges do-over by Trump regulators in easing Volcker Rule

  

  Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has been brawling with regulators over the Volcker Rule for years. And it’s still fighting even though officials appointed by President Donald Trump are now working to soften the landmark constraint on banks. Goldman said a revamp that regulators proposed earlier this year falls far short of what’s needed to ease undue burdens on Wall ...

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• 22 October

  All banks must handle cash, says Riksbank

  Bloomberg Sweden’s central bank said it wants all banks, and not just the biggest financial institutions, to be obliged to handle cash, as lawmakers seek ways to limit the nation’s rapid development into a cashless society. Commenting on a proposal by the parliament committee reviewing the central bank laws to force the biggest banks to handle cash, Riksbank Governor Stefan ...

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• 22 October

  Boeing creates new unit to focus on futuristic tech

  

  Bloomberg Boeing Co is creating a new unit to focus on technology that’s seemingly straight out of science fiction, including super-fast computing that mimics the synapses of the human brain and hack-proof communications links based on applied quantum physics. So-called neuromorphic processing and quantum communications, two of the futuristic technologies Boeing wants to explore, may seem an odd fit for ...

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• 22 October

  Airbus weighs another management shakeup

  

  Bloomberg Airbus SE is preparing for another round of management shakeup, according to people familiar with the matter, after overhauling most of its senior executive lineup. The European planemaker is considering changes in key sales positions that report to new commercial chief Christian Scherer — including several occupied by veterans who worked under longtime sales chief John Leahy, said the ...

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