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Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc won its court fight against a 33.6 million-euro ($37 million) European Union antitrust fine for conspiring with other banks to rig the Euribor benchmark, raising questions about whether the fines slapped on other institutions will hold on appeal. While the judges at the EU’s General Court agreed that HSBC infringed competition, they annulled the fine for ...

Bloomberg Last week’s turmoil in money markets raises questions about the appropriate level of bank reserves in the financial system, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said. It is “important that we examine these recent market dynamics and their implications for the liquidity needs in relation to the overall amount of reserves held at the Federal Reserve,” ...

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank chief Philip Lowe reiterated that his economy is at a “gentle turning point” and gave little indication that an interest-rate cut was in the immediate offing, potentially disappointing economists expecting one within days. “At our board meeting next week, we will again take stock of the evidence,” the Reserve Bank governor said in the text of ...

Bloomberg Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has bought a third of Ant Financial, the online financial services behemoth controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, augmenting a global array of investments now worth $83 billion. The Chinese e-commerce leader has closed the acquisition of 33 percent of newly issued equity in Ant, a long-gestating deal that cements ties between two of the country’s ...

Bloomberg NIO Inc reported a worse-than-expected quarterly loss, prompting the struggling Chinese electric-vehicle maker to pursue thousands of job cuts by the end of this month and the spinoff of some businesses by year-end. Second-quarter net losses widened 83 percent from a year earlier to about 3.3 billion yuan ($463 million), according to a statement on Tuesday. The figures were ...

Bloomberg Activity in Japan’s manufacturing sector contracted at the fastest clip in seven months in September, according to the latest PMI data, as US-China trade tensions continued to cloud the global outlook. The Jibun Bank Purchasing Managers Index fell to 48.9 from 49.3 in August, matching the lowest reading since 2016. The latest release comes with the Bank of Japan ...

Bloomberg Xiaomi Corp introduced its first phones compatible with the latest, fifth-generation cellular technology in China, as the country’s once-biggest smartphone maker prepares for an uphill battle against domestic rival Huawei Technologies Co. At an event in Beijing, billionaire co-founder Lei Jun introduced the 5G-capable Mi 9 Pro, the latest of Xiaomi’s classic product line, and gave the world a ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s economy is projected to expand at its fastest pace in seven years in 2020, despite the deteriorating global outlook and rising risks of recession abroad. The economy is forecast to grow 5.3 percent next year, according to the Indonesian parliament. Coming after the government twice revised down its growth forecast for this year, it would mark Indonesia’s fastest ...

What happens on Hong Kong Island does not stay there. The ongoing tsunami of discontent washes over this island, which, like Hong Kong, is navigating the choppy waters of relations with the same large and menacing mainland neighbour. This nation — which is such psychologically, if not in diplomatic nomenclature — has a presidential election in January that seems certain ...

In his new book on how to fix inequality, French economist Thomas Piketty may have gone a little too far with a call for a 90% wealth tax for billionaires and multimillionaires, but putting a tax on huge fortunes may well make sense. Bill Gates, the second richest man in the world, thinks so. His case makes it clear why ...