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Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank decided not to raise interest rates last week because of communication challenges, not economic risks, Assistant Governor Christian Hawkesby said. It would have been difficult to explain an increase in the official cash rate on the same day the country entered a lockdown to combat a Covid-19 outbreak, Hawkesby told Bloomberg in a telephone interview ...

Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc is boosting the pay of junior staff in its sales, trading, research and asset management divisions as the wave of pay rises spreads beyond investment banking, according to Financial News. Goldman Sachs will pay starting salaries of $110,000 in these units, up from $85,000, while second years will receive $125,000, Financial News reported, citing people ...

Bloomberg Hungary will probably raise interest rates for the third time in as many months as policy makers continue their campaign to stem one of the European Union’s highest inflation rates. The central bank is poised to increase benchmark rate by 30 basis points to 1.5%, matching the pace of hikes in June and July, according to all but one ...

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc Chairman Mark Tucker, speaking in Hong Kong after passing through the city’s rigid three-week quarantine, said the opportunities in China are “too big to ignore” even as geopolitical tensions escalate. “We’re moving to a new status quo in Sino-US relations,” Tucker said in a video obtained by Bloomberg News of a discussion last week at a ...

Bloomberg Singapore Exchange Ltd (SGX) is planning a maiden dollar bond offering, which would make it the latest entrant in a rush by Asian firms to lock in cheap borrowing costs. The city-state’s sole equities bourse hired banks for a potential US currency note and will hold investor calls from on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter, who ...

Bloomberg As India’s world-beating stock rally powers ahead, skeptics are pointing to lousy market breadth as a sign that further gains may be harder to come by. The NSE Nifty 200 Index has more than doubled from a March 2020 low — weathering alarming Covid-19 infection and death rates, strict lockdowns and slower economic growth — thanks to a massive ...

BEIJING / WAM Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, UAE Ambassador to China, said the bilateral ties between the UAE and China are witnessing a historic and special era, as the two countries are supporting each other in regional and international events. In his statement during the inauguration of the 5th China-Arab States Expo in Yinchuan, China, Al Dhaheri stressed that China ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi, Minister of State for Defence Affairs, has received a phone call on Monday from Peeni Henare, Minister of Defence of New Zealand. The two ministers discussed cooperation and joint action between the UAE and New Zealand in defence and military affairs, and touched upon regional issues of common interest. They also ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB) on Monday officially unveiled “Amwali” digital bank, the world’s first Islamic digital bank targeting youth between the age of 8 to 18. Co-created with the Founders Club, a cohort of Emirati youth and their parents, the all-in-one banking solution is designed to empower young customers with a dedicated digital banking experience, ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Masdar City Free Zone has announced the launch of new business package options for new and existing companies based in the region’s hub for innovative sustainable technologies, Masdar City. In line with the recent UAE government announcement to ease the business environment in the UAE, Masdar City Free Zone has introduced the new business package options ...