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Bloomberg US equities edged higher ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve rate decision, while European stocks gained. The dollar slipped as benchmark Treasury yields held steady, and emerging-market currencies extended a drop. The S&P 500 Index rose tentatively in morning trading, with a surge in health-care stocks offsetting the telecom weakness brought on after the AT&T takeover of Time Warner won ...

Bloomberg Bitcoin edged lower, bringing its four-day slide to about 16 percent, as questions mount about whether the world’s biggest cryptocurrency was manipulated during last year’s record price surge. The digital coin has closed below its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages for the past 16 days, the longest stretch below those support levels this year. Bitcoin, which surged more ...

Bloomberg Inflation picked up in India for a second straight month, giving ammunition to the central bank to further tighten monetary policy and squeezing returns for bond investors. Consumer prices rose 4.87 percent in May from a year earlier, the statistics ministry said in a statement in New Delhi. That was broadly in line with the 4.9 percent median estimate ...

Bloomberg The People’s Bank of China will raise borrowing costs in the open market if the US Federal Reserve decides to increase rates this week, according to a Bloomberg survey. A majority of 31 economists said the PBOC will increase by five basis points the rate it charges on reverse-repurchase agreements, which guide funding costs in financial markets, after the ...

Bloomberg Buy the euro, sell bonds. That’s the takeaway from strategists who expect that the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will announce on Thursday an end to the institution’s asset-purchase program as the immediate risks surrounding Italian politics subside. Analysts have become more bullish on the euro following recent hawkish comments from ECB officials, with Credit Agricole SA forecasting ...

Bloomberg The Bank of England told banks to be ready for war against the mounting threat of crippling cyber attacks. “I would like our firms to be on a WAR footing: withstand; absorb; recover,” Lyndon Nelson, deputy chief executive of the BOE’s Prudential Regulation Authority, said in a speech. The PRA expects firms to set out their own tolerances for ...

Bloomberg Asian central bankers grappling with wobbly markets, higher energy costs and simmering trade tensions are getting relief from an old foe: food prices. In a region vulnerable to volatile price swings, food inflation has been largely contained, thanks in part to favourable weather and increased investment in production, storage and distribution. For developing nations like India and China — ...

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is wrestling with a shortage of parts needed to repair hundreds of faulty engines that power Boeing Co.’s 787 wide-body jets, further stretching a tight timetable for repairs. The fix for excessive wear on the Trent 1000 turbines is taking about three days longer than planned in some cases due to a shortfall in stocks of ...

Bloomberg CVC Capital Partners acquired Malaysian snack producer Munchy Food Industries Sdn., as the private equity firm deepens its exposure to the fast-growing consumer industry in Southeast Asia. The London-based investment firm’s Asia Fund IV completed the purchase of a 100 percent stake in Munchy Food on June 8, it said in an emailed statement, confirming an earlier Bloomberg News ...

Bloomberg A freak bout of electrical storms over Germany is to blame for the worst monthly punctuality record at Deutsche Lufthansa AG in at least two years, according to the company. The country suffered more lightning strikes in the first five months than in the whole of 2017, with planes hit by an average of three bolts a week, according ...