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  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG will pay its senior bankers an upfront cash award again this year, as executives attempt to incentivise staff to stick with the troubled lender as it undergoes a broad restructuring. Managing directors and directors in most locations will be paid the cash component of their variable 2022 compensation straight away, according to an internal ...

  Bloomberg China’s yuan is poised to resume its advance as the removal of Covid curbs supercharges economic recovery in 2023, according to a veteran trader at Standard Chartered Plc. “The yuan is more likely to go to 6.5 per dollar than to 7 within the next three to six months,” said Charles Feng, head of macro trading for Greater ...

  Bloomberg Bank of Montreal (BMO) and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) may need to raise new equity over the medium term to build capital levels as the bank regulator bolsters its requirements, according to analyst Nigel D’Souza. BMO issued shares in December 2022 and there’s been talk of CIBC doing the same after Canada’s financial watchdog boosted the minimum ...

  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) started telling executives to pause hiring except for the most vital positions, as it tries to keep a lid on costs and prepare for a possible economic downturn. The move is an escalation of the company’s decision late last year to slow hiring after fewer employees decided to leave of their own accord, ...

  Bloomberg Norway’s central bank paused monetary tightening while signalling a likely quarter-point increase in borrowing costs in March is still needed to bring inflation under control. Norges Bank kept the key deposit rate on hold at 2.75% on Thursday, as forecast by the majority of economists in a Bloomberg survey. Governor Ida Wolden Bache said the benchmark “will most ...

  Bloomberg Treasuries rallied and equities declined as growing signs of a global economic slowdown raised investor concern that the start-of-the-year rally in risk assets may have gone too far. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index dropped 0.4% after the benchmark slumped the most in a month on Wednesday amid weaker-than-expected economic data. Nasdaq 100 futures also lost 0.4%. Europe’s ...

  Bloomberg Tesla Inc dropped out of the top 10 holdings of a South Korean electric-vehicle (EV) mutual fund for the first time ever amid its epic selloff last year. The Korea Investment Management Co. fund has steadily reduced its Tesla exposure to less than 2% of its net asset value in order to reduce volatility. The US EV giant previously ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, received a phone call from Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Houthi terrorist attacks on some civilian sites and facilities in the UAE during the past year. During the call, Vice President Harris affirmed her ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai’s real estate sector ended another exceptional year with annual transactions setting new records, marking the sector as a major contributor to the goals of the Dubai Economic Agenda D33 announced recently by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The agenda outlines ambitious ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM In the presence of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, AD Ports Group signed a strategic partnership agreement with Kazakh National Oil Company (KazMunayGas) and a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kazakhstan Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development for strategic cooperation in ...