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Bloomberg Indonesia’s flag carrier PT Garuda Indonesia confirmed it is taking steps to restructure its debt and revamp its business in order to stay afloat amid the pandemic. The airline is negotiating terms with plane lessors and is talking with banks and business partners to restructure its loans, according to a stock exchange filing submitted. The coronavirus outbreak has forced …

Bloomberg The euro’s charge towards a three-year high is stumbling as the European Central Bank quashes expectations that it’s anywhere near paring back emergency stimulus. The ECB is increasingly expected by economists and investors to extend its elevated pace of emergency bond-buying at a June meeting, even as the continent’s vaccination program surges forward and economy rebounds. That’s putting a …

Bloomberg Canada’s biggest banks are signaling that financial issues from the Covid-19 crisis are largely in the rear-view mirror in North America — and earlier than analysts had expected. After a year of stockpiling record amounts of capital to protect against a wave of loan defaults, Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank — the country’s two largest banks — …

Bloomberg The Swedish central bank will by law have to identify threats against sustainable development and consider issues such as employment when it conducts policy, according to a government proposal. Climate change could become a long term threat “to economic development broadly, as well as stability in the financial system,” according to the proposal for a new Riksbank Act, which …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley moved closer to take full control of its securities and fund management ventures in China as it ramped up investments in the world’s second-largest economy. The US bank is buying an additional 39% of the securities joint venture for 569.6 million yuan ($89.5 million), according to an exchange filing from Shanghai Chinafortune Co, the parent company of …

Bloomberg Bank of America Corp (BofA) plans to bring top New York managers back to the office starting June 1, as the proliferation of vaccines across the US clears the way for employees to return. “Our goal is by after Labour Day to effectively be back to where we were in January of 2020,” CEO Brian Moynihan said while testifying …

Bloomberg Poland’s central bank has repeatedly vowed to keep government borrowing costs low during the pandemic. Its quantitative-easing auction this week had the opposite effect. The National Bank of Poland unexpectedly refused to buy $1.2 billion of government bonds that investors offered to sell, sending the local debt market into a tailspin. The decision blindsided investors, sparking speculation that policy …

Bloomberg The main thing Ferrari will tell you about the 2021 Ferrari SF90 Stradale is how much of a bargain it is. The arithmetic requires some squinting around the edges of elitism and a healthy injection of relative logic. It goes like this: The two-door coupe is the second hybrid from Modena, Italy’s crown jewel, the first being the La …

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co is boosting spending on electric vehicles by at least 36% to $30 billion over the next four years and said that by the end of the decade, four out of 10 models it sells will be battery-powered. The investment includes creating a range of batteries the carmaker is calling IonBoost and the development of solid-state batteries …

Bloomberg Facebook Inc’s messaging platform WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit challenging Indian rules that would require the company to provide access to encrypted messages, aggravating an already tense relationship between Silicon Valley giants and the government in a country where they have hundreds of millions of users. WhatsApp filed the lawsuit in the Delhi High Court, the company confirmed. The …