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  Bloomberg Turkey’s new central bank Governor Murat Cetinkaya emphasized in his first public appearance that curbing inflation remains the bank’s top priority, signaling continuity in monetary policy. The lira gained. At a press conference on Tuesday presenting the quarterly inflation report, Cetinkaya said the bank would do more to raise awareness about the importance to the overall economy of ...

  Bloomberg It’s the world’s most famous clock, an icon of London for a century and a half. It stood firm when the Luftwaffe bombed the Houses of Parliament. Now Big Ben is threatened by two deadlier enemies: water and modern paint. In early 2017, work will begin on a £29 million($42 million), three-year project to restore the Elizabeth Tower, ...

  Bloomberg Bond traders are signaling that even inflation expectations at 2016 highs won’t be enough to push the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this week. Futures show the central bank will hold its benchmark unchanged when it meets on Tuesday and Wednesday as policy makers incorporate international events into monetary-policy decisions. The meeting will give policy makers a ...

  Bloomberg T-Mobile US Inc. reported profit that exceeded analysts’ estimates as the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier posted a seventh straight quarter of adding more than 1 million new monthly users with features like free video streaming and mobile data rollover. First-quarter earnings were 56 cents a share, the Bellevue, Washington-based company said in a statement Tuesday. Adjusted earnings before ...

  Bloomberg Brazil’s Real advanced on speculation that President Dilma Rousseff will be impeached and as the central bank refrained from moving to weaken the currency. Stocks dropped as a decline in oil and iron-ore prices dimmed the outlook for Brazilian producers. The currency strengthened 0.2 percent to 3.5582 per dollar, extending its gain this year to 11 percent, the ...

  Bloomberg It’s been a wild few weeks in the agriculture markets. Floods in Argentina and drought in Brazil have sent futures markets from Chicago to Paris into a tizzy, with corn, soybean and wheat prices surging in the first half of last week before slumping back down. While Louis Dreyfus Co.’s chief executive officer has said 2015 was defined ...

  Bloomberg Argentina is considering submitting a bill to congress that would allow the state pension manager to sell as much as 70.6 billion pesos ($5 billion) of shares in publicly traded companies, according to a person familiar with the government’s plans. President Mauricio Macri’s government may submit the proposal before July or issue a decree to modify the pension ...

  The Russian government has approved a sober, and sobering, economic forecast for the next three years. The country’s prospects look so joyless that President Vladimir Putin may finally start listening to the mainstream economists who have stuck with him despite his unconcealed preference for a huge public sector tempered with a dose of crony capitalism. Today’s Russian leaders appear ...

  Du Nhat Dang SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS For Vietnam, 2016 seems fated to be a crucial year. Hanoi’s sovereignty disputes and related diplomatic efforts will be impacted by ongoing changes in Russia, China, and Japan and, yes, the results of the United States’ presidential election. The role of Russia is of particular interest for Vietnam. On April 14, Vietnamese ...

  This week’s U.K. Treasury report and last week’s IMF report are the latest in a long line of predictions suggesting doom and gloom if the U.K. leaves the European Union. Are they right? Economists are far more split on the consequences of a U.K. exit than the conventional view suggests. While a number of global investment banks have given ...