By Hannah Lang WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The euro and sterling fell sharply against a strengthening dollar on Friday amid lingering nervousness over banks. Banking stocks plunged in Europe with heavyweights Deutsche Bank and UBS Group pummelled by worries that the worst problems to hit the sector since the 2008 financial crisis have not yet been…
By Saeed Azhar and Matt Tracy NEW YORK (Reuters) – Small U.S. lenders that have outsized exposure to office loans could become the next group to face strains after bank failures roiled financial markets this month, according to analysts. Rising interest rates, a slowdown in the commercial real estate (CRE) market and the proliferation of…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will chair a closed meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council on Friday morning, according to daily media advisory for the department. The Treasury statement provided no further details about the subject of the FSOC meeting, which comes two weeks after regulators closed Silicon…
LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Banking stocks fell sharply again on Friday, with European giants Deutsche Bank and UBS knocked by worries that regulators and central banks have not yet contained the worst shock to the sector since the 2008 global financial crisis. The S&P 500 Banks Index was 1.5% lower and wider indicators of financial…
By Gleb Stolyarov and Roman Churikov MOSCOW (Reuters) – As the exodus of Western carmakers narrows options for Russian consumers, Chinese automakers are filling the gap, forcing Russians to overcome their reluctance to embrace Chinese brands and stomach higher prices. Chinese brands such as Haval, Chery and Geely now account for almost 40% of Russia’s…
By Evan Garcia and Dan Fastenberg MCCAMEY, Texas (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency bankruptcies and worries over electric power consumption have failed to dent the industry’s growth in Texas, according to a top trade group, citing the rise in the miners’ power demands. Bitcoin miners consume about 2,100 megawatts of the state’s power supplies, said Lee Bratcher,…
By Michael Martina and Yew Lun Tian WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities raided the office of U.S. corporate due diligence firm Mintz Group in Beijing and detained five local staff, the company said, putting foreign companies in China on alert just as the country hosts an international economic forum. News of the raid and detentions…
By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices fell sharply on Friday amid declining European banking shares and after U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said refilling the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) may take several years, dampening demand prospects. Brent crude fell $2.50, or 3.3%, to $73.41 a barrel by 1031 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate…
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures struggled for direction on Friday as investors remained jittery over the health of the banking sector while they weighed the odds of the Federal Reserve pausing its interest rate hikes soon. Wall Street’s main indexes ended higher in the previous session following Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s reassurances that measures…
BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Indian stock market may outperform its Asian and emerging market peers in the long term as lofty valuations ease and investors look to bet on the economy’s growth prospects, brokerage group Jefferies said in a note. The benchmark Nifty 50 Index’s price-to-earnings premium to China’s Hang Seng Index declined to 115%…
