More insurers are deserting the net zero alliance as the UN climate group sounds the alarm

More insurers are deserting the net zero alliance as the UN climate group sounds the alarm

(1/3) The logo of insurer Allianz SE is seen on the company’s building in Puteaux, in the financial and business district of La Defense near Paris, outside Paris, France, May 14, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau /File Photo Lloyd’s of London is the latest of the six to leave NZIA UN group warns ‘political attacks’ hurt insurers … Read more

Wall Street ends higher as Nvidia triggers AI stock rush

Wall Street ends higher as Nvidia triggers AI stock rush

Nvidia Hits All-Time High on Optimistic Forecast AI heavy gamers, Microsoft, rising alphabet Two rating agencies place US credit on negative watch Closing indices: S&P 500 +0.88%, Nasdaq +1.71%, Dow -0.11% May 25 (Reuters) – Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after an explosive forecast from Nvidia sent shares of the chipmaker soaring and … Read more

PacWest shares jump after selling $2.6 billion home loan

PacWest shares jump after selling .6 billion home loan

May 22 (Reuters) – Shares of PacWest Bancorp (PACW.O) jumped on Monday after the troubled regional lender announced it had agreed to sell $2.6 billion in construction home loans at a price reduced in order to improve its balance sheet. PacWest shares rose nearly 20% on the deal, giving the Los Angeles-based bank breathing space … Read more

JPMorgan sees net interest income increase by $3 billion thanks to First Republic deal

JPMorgan sees net interest income increase by  billion thanks to First Republic deal

NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co’s (JPM.N) net interest income will rise by $3 billion as it earns more interest on its purchase of bankrupt First Republic Bank this year , executives told investors Monday. The largest US lender expects its net interest income to reach $84 billion thanks to higher … Read more

How Wall Street is preparing for a possible US debt default

How Wall Street is preparing for a possible US debt default

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) – As talks on raising the U.S. government debt ceiling to $31.4 trillion culminate, banks and asset managers on Wall Street are bracing for the fallout a potential defect. The financial industry has prepared for such a crisis before, most recently in September 2021. But this time the relatively short … Read more

China Keeps Lending Rates Stable; the market sees the reduced reserve ratio as the next step

China Keeps Lending Rates Stable;  the market sees the reduced reserve ratio as the next step

One-year LPR maintained at 3.65%, five-year LPR at 4.3% The yuan broke the 7 to the dollar mark Widest China-U.S. government bond yield spread in two months PBOC may cut RRR in next policy move – analysts SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE, May 22 (Reuters) – China kept key rates unchanged for the ninth month of May on Monday, … Read more

China fails Micron’s products in safety review, bans some purchases

China fails Micron’s products in safety review, bans some purchases

(1/2) Memory chip parts from U.S. memory chip maker MicronTechnology are pictured at their stand during an industry fair in Frankfurt, Germany July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach BEIJING, May 21 (Reuters) – China’s cyberspace regulator said on Sunday that products made by U.S. memory chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) had failed its network security review … Read more

Morgan Stanley CEO succession highlights Wall Street’s diversity divide

Morgan Stanley CEO succession highlights Wall Street’s diversity divide

May 21 (Reuters) – The absence of women from the list of potential successors to the CEO of Morgan Stanley (MS.N) underscores the importance of cultivating and retaining diverse talent, according to corporate governance experts. Morgan Stanley co-chairmen Ted Pick and Andy Saperstein and chief investment officer Dan Simkowitz are the first to succeed James … Read more

Morgan Stanley CEO Gorman to hand over reins to successor within a year

Morgan Stanley CEO Gorman to hand over reins to successor within a year

NEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley (MS.N) CEO James Gorman plans to step down within a year but remains executive chairman, ending 13 years in the role in which he served built the Wall Street society. into a wealth management centre. Gorman, 64, told shareholders on Friday that the bank’s board had identified … Read more

Deutsche Bank to pay $75 million to settle lawsuit against Epstein accusers

Deutsche Bank to pay  million to settle lawsuit against Epstein accusers

(1/2) US financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services’ Sex Offender Registry on March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters on July 10, 2017. Learn more May 17 (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a lawsuit … Read more