Fed’s Organic Approach, ECB Disputes, Brexit Gloom: Eco Day

(Bloomberg) --

Good morning Americas. Here’s the latest news and analysis from Bloomberg Economics to help get your week started:

• The Federal Reserve has opted for a more organic balance-sheet increase, while financial analysts are calling for something much bigger
  • New York Fed President John Williams said bank reserves will probably need to be higher in the future to limit the risk of money markets repeating their recent turmoil
• A U.S. Treasury official said there are no current plans to stop Chinese companies from listing on U.S. exchanges; China is talking big about financial-market opening ahead of a planned next round of trade talks with the U.S.
• When Christine Lagarde takes charge of the European Central Bank, she’ll inherit the policy disputes of her predecessors -- now with even deeper scars
  • Meanwhile, officials are looking to employ “tiering” to ease the impact of negative rates -- here’s a QuickTake on the tool
• Europe’s jobs market is giving some hope to the region’s economic story, which has for months been dominated by a deepening slump in manufacturing that’s tipped Germany close to recession
• British businesses are getting increasingly gloomy about the economy as Brexit approaches, according to the Lloyds Business Barometer
  • Staying the U.K, reports Monday showed the economy experienced major distortions in the second quarter after firms stockpiled goods in the run-up to the original Brexit deadline, while demand for borrowing declined last month as households braced for the new exit date

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