Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr said, "further policy adjustments are likely to be needed," to return inflation to the central bank's 2% target "in a timely fashion." Barr spoke Wednesday in Chicago.
Morgan Stanley is trying to figure out how a staffer accidentally leaked an email with highly confidential information. It contained a list of investment-banking deals the firm is working on in Asia. Bloomberg's Sridhar Natarajan reports.
Greg Peters, PGIM Credit co-chief investment officer, says financial conditions in the US are improving. He talks about his outlook for the bond market on "Bloomberg Surveillance."
Chanel plans to keep investing in China, undeterred by the economic downturn that has hit the luxury industry hard. Chief Executive Officer Leena Nair says China is still an important market. She spoke with David Rubenstein for an upcoming episode of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer to Peer Conversations, airing Wednesday, December 9.
US President Donald Trump said his officials and Iranian envoys had "very good" talks in New York, amid reports that the Islamic republic laid down "firm positions" for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Tyler Kendall reports on Bloomberg Television.
Amos Hochstein, managing partner at TWG Global and former energy advisor to President Joe Biden, proposes an alternative to a US diesel export ban and says the war in Iran will remain a "core problem" for fuel prices.
Daan Struyven, co-head of global commodities research at Goldman Sachs, explains the four main questions the Trump administration faces if it institutes a diesel export ban. He also discusses how a ban could negatively impact domestic gasoline prices and where he sees demand destruction in the global oil market.
OECD Chief Economist Stefano Scarpetta discusses the outlook for inflation, the impact of artificial intelligence on the global economy and debt markets, and rising bond yields. Speaking on Bloomberg Television, Scarpetta says "central banks have to remain very vigilant" about the risk of higher prices. "They need to intervene like they have done so far, perhaps more than what they did in 2022," he adds.
Laura Cooper, global investment strategist at Nuveen, says factors weighing on markets could result in "limited tactical upside from here," but that investors are looking to add risk to their portfolios. "I think markets are just waiting for those kind of clearing events around event risks, whether that's around geopolitical risk, whether that's around the midterms," Cooper tells Bloomberg Television. "I think there's just these kind of key barriers to that re-risking."
Britain's private sector slowed and price pressures strengthened in September, according to S&P Global's purchasing managers' index, a closely watched survey that pointed to a summer growth spurt losing momentum. Dan Hanson of Bloomberg Economics reacts to the data.
Airtel Money Commerce NV has filed for an initial public offering in London because it has "deep capital available," according to Chief Executive Officer Ian Ferrao. "There's a very, very good understanding of emerging markets," he tells Bloomberg Television. "Our parent company, Airtel Africa, has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2019. It's had a very successful run here, and we're hoping to to replicate that success," Ferrao adds. The IPO could be the largest listing the city has seen in five years.
The upper house of Switzerland's parliament backed a fresh compromise in the debate on UBS Group AG's capital requirements. The plan foresees that the bank must back 90% of the value of its foreign units with the highest-quality capital, known as CET1. That's less than the 100% backing the government has pushed for but a departure from a compromise involving heavy use of convertible debt which UBS favored. UBS has said it's against the 90% solution. Bloomberg's Jan-Henrik Foerster reports from Zurich.
