Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG slashed the amount of money set aside for bonuses by hundreds of millions of dollars and used the savings to limit financial hit from the implosion of Archegos Capital Management, Financial Times (FT) reported. Cuts to bonus pool accruals and other one-off items added about $600 million to underlying profit before tax for the first …
Read More »Ex-BOJ member Sakurai sees no rate cuts without fresh crisis
Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is highly unlikely to deepen its negative interest rate without a fresh economic crisis on a massive scale, according to former board member Makoto Sakurai, whose term ended last month. “The BOJ didn’t lower rates†even at the height of the pandemic shock last year in March, Sakurai said in his first interview since …
Read More »Goldman Sachs to open new office in Birmingham
Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is opening a new office in Birmingham, marking the investment bank’s second UK location outside London. The new building is set to open in the third quarter of 2021 and will eventually have several hundred staff across a number of divisions, the bank said in a statement on Tuesday. Engineering will be the first business …
Read More »Indian bank fined for misselling its riskier debt to individuals
Bloomberg India’s markets regulator fined Yes Bank Ltd. for claiming that riskier bonds it sold to individual investors were as safe as term deposits. Securities & Exchange Board of India ordered Yes Bank to pay $3.3 million after it “deliberately misrepresented†the Additional Tier 1 notes, “by suppressing the inherent risks of these bonds and distorting facts to mislead their …
Read More »Goldman joins PineBridge to go bearish on Indonesian rupiah
Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank says the rupiah is “very undervalued†following a two-month slide. Investment banks and money managers are predicting further losses. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says climbing US yields and a potentially firmer dollar will keep hurting Indonesian assets in the near term, while PineBridge Investments Asia Ltd. says the rupiah will keep sliding due to the global …
Read More »Bond yields climb as US futures steady before CPI
Bloomberg Bond yields climbed and US futures steadied as traders awaited inflation data, a Treasury auction and corporate earnings to assess the market outlook. Bitcoin hit a record. The yield on the 10-year US benchmark headed back toward 1.7%, with rates across Europe rising in sympathy. Gains in European shares were led by tech shares, while most US stock futures …
Read More »Liquidity-obsessed China stock traders snub upbeat earnings
Bloomberg Stock investors in China are ignoring a spate of recent bullish earnings as worries about further liquidity tightening continue to weigh on market sentiment. A 1200% jump in Tesla Inc-supplier Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group Co’s first-quarter earnings guidance was followed by a slump of as much as 7.7% in its shares on Tuesday. In the previous session, Suofeiya Home …
Read More »Oil tops $60 as investors weigh near-term demand outlook
Bloomberg Oil gained, topping $60 a barrel, as investors continued to assess the recovery in consumption globally. Futures in New York rose as the dollar fell, making commodities priced in the US currency more attractive. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the US economy was poised for stronger growth, but he cautioned that the pandemic remains a threat. That’s …
Read More »Walmart, India’s Adani to build massive warehouse
Bloomberg Walmart Inc’s e-commerce unit, Flipkart Online Services Pvt, signed a pact with tycoon Gautam Adani’s conglomerate to build one of the largest retail warehouses in India as the US giant gears up to battle Amazon.com Inc and homegrown rivals in the South Asian nation. The partnership marks the entry of Adani, India’s fastest-rising billionaire, into the three-way fight for …
Read More »UAE, Serbia discuss cooperation
BELGRADE / WAM Mubarak Saeed Burshaid Al Dhaheri, UAE Ambassador to Serbia, and Nikola Selakovic, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, have reviewed means to further develop cooperation between the two countries. During the meeting, the two sides commended the sincere friendship and fruitful cooperation between the UAE and Serbia thanks to the distinguished relationship between the leadership of the …
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