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Financial stability should not become Fed’s third mandate: Mester

Maintaining stability in financial markets should not be an explicit goal for the Federal Reserve, which should use interest rates to head off a crisis only if more precise and better-suited tools fail, a top Fed official said on Tuesday. “If our macroprudential tools proved…

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NY Fed, Bangladesh Bank meeting on heist postponed: sources

A meeting between Bangladesh central bank officials and the New York Federal Reserve scheduled for this week to speed up efforts to recover $81 million stolen from Bangladesh Bank's account at the Fed has been postponed, officials in Dhaka said. A four-member Bangladesh Bank team headed by deputy governor Mohammad Razee Hassan, who also heads …

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IKEA to recall 1.7 million chests, dressers in China: watchdog

Swedish furniture company IKEA Group [IKEA.UL] said it would recall 1.66 million chests and dressers in China over concerns the drawers could pose a danger to children if not properly fixed to walls, China's safety regulator said on Tuesday. The recall covers MALM chests or dressers manufactured from 1999 to 2016, China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said in a statement posted on …

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Exclusive: Japan government to cut inflation forecasts, gloomier on outlook than BOJ

Japan's government is expected to cut its consumer inflation forecast for the current fiscal year and produce an estimate for fiscal 2017 that is much lower than the central bank's 2 percent target, government sources told Reuters on Tuesday. In draft forecasts to be finalised on Wednesday, the…

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Global shares gain as Brexit tensions ease amid stimulus hopes

Europe's STOXX 600 rose 0.5 percent, helped by gains in Daimler and Unicredit , while sterling jumped 1.1 percent against the dollar, pulling further from a 31-year low hit last week. In Britain, interior minister Theresa May was set to become prime minister on Wednesday, offering some relief from the political uncertainty that has dogged the market since the country voted to leave the European Union last month. “U.S. real interest rates are now negative.

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UBS chief says Swiss government is leaving banks exposed

Switzerland's politicians have done too little to protect the country's banks from demands for data from foreign governments, UBS Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in an interview published by the SonntagsZeitung newspaper on Sunday. Since the financial crisis, cash-strapped governments around the world have clamped down on tax evasion, with authorities investigating Swiss banks in Germany, France and the United States. “This is unacceptable and opens the door for a new offensive against Swiss banks,” he told the paper, adding that the government…

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G20 seeks to enhance trade growth in face of protectionism: China

In the face of a “worrying” rise in protectionism, trade ministers from the world's major economies have agreed to cut trade costs, increase policy coordination and enhance financing, China's Commerce Minister…

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Boeing exec opposes Iran licenses for others if its deal blocked

The head of Boeing Commercial Airplanes said on Sunday that U.S. suppliers to Europe's Airbus and other planemakers should not be able to get licenses to sell their wares to Iran if Boeing is blocked from completing a $25 billion deal …

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German authority would not have approved beta-phase Tesla autopilot: newspaper

Germany's Federal Office for Motor Vehicles (KBA) would not have approved the autopilot system installed on Tesla cars if the technology was still in a beta-phase version, it told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Tesla'…

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Exclusive: WellCare, Centene make offers for Aetna assets – sources

By Carl O'Donnell and Caroline Humer (Reuters) – WellCare Health Plans Inc and Centene Corp have made competing offers for the Medicare Advantage insurance plans that Aetna Inc looks to shed in seeking clearance for its acquisition of Humana Inc , people familiar with the matter said. The potential divestiture is a central pillar of Aetna's efforts to win over regulators for its $34-billion Humana deal. WellCare and Centene submitted bids this week for…

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