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Bloomberg A posse of Federal Reserve policy makers met with skepticism when they described ways to potentially improve their management of the economy. Participants at a Hoover Institution monetary conference questioned whether the central bankers have the will or the way to implement the fresh strategies they outlined, including average inflation targeting. The experts also voiced concern that the US ...

Bloomberg India’s biggest investors in shadow bank debt are getting cold feet, spelling more trouble for the hard-hit sector. Mutual fund investments in commercial paper and bonds that mature within 90 days dropped to 3.24 trillion rupees ($46.4 billion) at the end of March, the lowest in six quarters, data from the securities regulator show. The fallout from shock defaults ...

Bloomberg The Philippine central bank cut its benchmark interest rate and will consider easing the reserve ratio for lenders next week to boost economic growth from a four-year low. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas lowered the overnight borrowing rate by 25 basis points to 4.5%, the first reduction since an operational adjustment to the rate in 2016. The Philippines joins Malaysia ...

Bloomberg Brazil held its benchmark interest rate at a record low and signaled that a period of weaker-than-expected growth is still insufficient for reduced borrowing costs. The bank’s board, led by its President Roberto Campos Neto, voted unanimously to keep the Selic rate unchanged at 6.50 percent. The monetary authority has held borrowing costs steady for roughly a year. In ...

Bloomberg Danske Bank A/S is turning into a case study for European regulators, legislators and bankers to rethink fundamental assumptions about how the finance industry should operate. First up is the principle that bank clients should be protected by secrecy laws. The sheer scale of the Danske money-laundering scandal means those rules may now get a review. The financial regulator ...

Bloomberg The amount of money Boeing Co and its insurers will pay to the families of those who perished aboard two doomed jets will be dictated in part by one particularly grim calculation: How long did the victims know they were plunging to their deaths. That measure is just one part of an expanding legal fight to determine financial liability ...

Bloomberg Viva Air, the Latin American group of carriers owned by a founder of Ireland’s Ryanair Holdings Plc, has plans for a third airline in the region plus an initial public offering, to cash in on strong demand for discount air travel. The company aims to sell shares in New York within two years, Viva’s biggest shareholder, Declan Ryan, said ...

Bloomberg Steinhoff International Holdings NV was for many years run by a board of tight-knit people, many of whom had done business together for decades. Just how close they were became apparent with the release of Steinhoff’s 2017 annual report, which identified a plethora of related-party transactions that the company now says weren’t properly disclosed according to best corporate governance ...

Bloomberg With President Donald Trump slapping 25% tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods, those companies who’d already started moving production outside China are looking pretty smart. But those shifts come with their own headaches. Take Tapestry Inc, owner of the Coach and Kate Spade brands. As it relocates more manufacturing outside China, interim finance chief Andrea Shaw Resnick says ...

Bloomberg Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in at least a year and said it’s loosening a pact with online retailer Ocado Group Plc so that it can add other digital partners. Comparable retail sales rose 2.3% in the first quarter. The figure missed analysts’ 2.5% estimate. Chief Executive Officer Dave Potts faces the challenge of ...