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Bloomberg The government is feuding, the budget numbers don’t add up, questions are swirling around banks. But Italy’s stock market is on a roll. The FTSE MIB benchmark has risen 7.6 percent this year, the best performer among major European markets, helped by gains at oil services company Saipem SpA as well as from recently added member Juventus Football Club ...

Bloomberg The impending bankruptcy of PG&E Corp is threatening to foist large liabilities on five banks that have agreed to act as buyers of last resort for more than $760 million of bonds that the teetering utility issued through California government agencies. The company’s announcement that it plans to seek protection from creditors triggered a surge of selling by owners ...

Bloomberg Indonesia’s central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged for a second month, while keeping the door open for more policy action if needed. After hiking by 175 basis points since May, Bank Indonesia kept its seven-day reverse repurchase rate at 6 percent, as predicted by all 26 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Governor Perry Warjiyo said the rate was ...

Bloomberg It’s shaping up to be a sad bonus season for Europe’s battered bankers. ING Groep NV said payouts will be “significantly smaller” after the largest Dutch lender paid record fines to end a money-laundering probe. Two of France’s top banks are also weighing lower rewards after their trading units were hit by a broader downturn. At Deutsche Bank AG, ...

Bloomberg A combination of the China trade war and government shutdown could be enough to tip the US economy into recession this year, according to Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank’s chief international economist. The stark warning comes amid emerging signs that the world’s biggest economy is slowing down as gauges of manufacturing and consumer sentiment have fallen in recent weeks. Economists ...

Bloomberg Angola’s central bank, which revoked two lenders’ banking licenses this month, will shut down more institutions if they fail to meet minimum capital levels amid an asset-quality review, Governor Jose Lima de Massano said. Bad loans have crippled the banking sector of Africa’s second-biggest oil producer after a sharp drop in crude prices in mid-2014 triggered a three-year economic ...

Bloomberg Jet Airways India Ltd is working with lenders to revamp its debt as the struggling carrier tries to shore up its financials after recording losses in nine of the past eleven years in a market known for ultra-low fares. The carrier is working on “various options on the debt-equity mix, proportion of equity infusion,” the Mumbai-based company said in ...

Bloomberg A one-two punch of bad weather and longer airport security lines mean it’ll be a miserable weekend for many travellers in the US. Winter storm Harper, a blizzard that the National Weather Service expects to travel from the Midwest through New England and the Northeast, may leave up to 18 inches of snow. In addition, severe thunderstorms with damaging ...

Bloomberg Values of UK shopping centres and high street stores could be reduced significantly after property agents were told to reflect the seismic changes sweeping the retail industry, the Sunday Times reported. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors told valuers to be “aware of the potential for significant changes in value” in retail properties, the newspaper reported, without saying where ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc shares dropped to a four-year low after the airline cut its full-year profit guidance, citing an industrywide slump in ticket prices and over-capacity across Europe this winter. The region’s biggest discount airline now expects an after-tax profit in the range of $1.1 billion to 1.1 billion euros, excluding its new Lauda unit, for the year through ...