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Bloomberg India’s consumer price inflation hit a more than five-year high, boosting the case for the central bank to keep interest rates on hold for longer and possibly putting at risk its accommodative stance. Data on Monday showed inflation breached the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 2%-6% target band as it accelerated to 7.35% in December ...

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s energy minister said that Opec and its allies remain focused on using production cuts to reduce oil inventories to normal levels, undeterred by the flare up of political tensions in the Middle East. Oil prices have erased all of this year’s rally, which saw Brent crude surge to a three-month high of almost $72 a barrel. Opec ...

Bloomberg Canadian natural gas is trading at the highest price relative to US benchmarks in about 10 months after producers cut back on drilling and a rule change on a key Alberta pipeline system last year helped better manage flows of the fuel. The discount on gas traded at Alberta’s AECO hub versus the Henry Hub in the US shrank ...

Bloomberg Brookfield Renewable Partners LP, looking to bolster its status as one of the world’s largest clean-energy providers, is bidding to buy the shares of TerraForm Power Inc it doesn’t already own in a deal valuing the company at $3.9 billion. The proposal values TerraForm Power at $17.31 a share, representing an 11% premium to the closing share price on ...

Bloomberg US equity futures advanced with Asian shares on Monday while Europe stocks fluctuated as investors showed mild optimism at the start of a busy week set to be dominated by the beginning of earnings season and the signing of a partial China trade deal. Bonds, the yen and gold retreated. Contracts on the S&P 500 signalled a rebound from ...

Bloomberg When it comes to Philippine stocks, 2020 so far isn’t looking better than 2019. Barely two weeks into the new year, and the market is the worst performer among major Asian peers, with overseas fund withdrawals reminiscent of January 2008. Back then, fears of a US recession roiled global shares and pummeled Manila into a bear market. Last year, ...

Bloomberg The years-long disputes between China and South Korea are getting resolved, and analysts at Nomura Holdings Inc expect Chinese tourists to return en masse to the Korean nation. That’s a boon for shares of cosmetics producers and travel-related companies. Amorepacific Corp, the maker of beauty products that are popular souvenirs among Chinese women, climbed as much as 6.6% on ...

Bloomberg The pound dropped and gilts climbed after another member of the Bank of England’s (BOE) monetary policy committee pointed to a potential vote for an interest-rate cut this month and data showed the UK economy unexpectedly shrank in November. Sterling led losses among Group-of-10 currencies, on course for its fifth consecutive day of declines. Policy maker Gertjan Vlieghe said ...

Bloomberg With a trade deal nearly signed and China’s economy on steadier footing, the path for China’s yuan to strengthen is now wide open. The currency rose to a five-month high on Monday, punching past 6.9 per dollar for the first time since August. It also strengthened for a fourth session versus a basket of trading partners’ currencies. The move ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc plans to double its headcount in China over the next five years, provided the Communist Party-ruled nation continues down the path of opening up its financial markets. The ambition to raise staffing to 600 is part of a five-year plan drawn up by executives at the New York-based investment bank, said a person familiar with ...