 | | | | Blackstone Inc said on Thursday its first-quarter distributable earnings jumped 63% as a strong performance from its real estate and credit businesses offset a weak showing from its hedge funds unit. | | | | | | Canada's headline inflation may have peaked after hitting a 31-year high in March, economists said, though the central bank still faces an uphill battle to bring rocketing prices back to earth before expectations become entrenched. | | | | | | With even the most dovish U.S. central bankers now calling for a key interest rate to hit its "neutral" level by year's end to tame high inflation, the Federal Reserve appears headed for perhaps its swiftest shift in monetary policy since the 1960s, with all the risks that ride along with such an abrupt change. | | | | | | The Russian central bank will consider cutting the key interest rate from 17% at upcoming board meetings, Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday, flagging economic challenges that Russia will face as it tries to blunt western sanctions over Ukraine. | | | | | | Russia is looking at adjustments to its forex controls to avoid situations where the rouble exchange deviates on a shadow market from official levels, Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina said on Thursday. | | | | | | The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange is deactivating the accounts of its major clients in Russia, it said on Thursday, cutting back its services in the country in line with European Union sanctions. | | | | | | A look at the day ahead in markets from Sujata Rao. | | | | | | Several Russian banks plan to issue payment cards that use the network of China UnionPay as well as that of home-grown payment system Mir, after Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc joined other Western firms in suspending operations in Russia. | | | | | | Deloitte and audit partner John Charlton have been fined and severely reprimmanded over a 2016 audit of Mitie , a British outsourcing company, the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) auditing watchdog said on Thursday. | | | | | | A precipitous drop in the yen has investors wary that Japan intervenes in the open market to support the currency. | | | | | |
