U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said it expects Brent crude prices to reach $80 per barrel this summer as vaccine rollouts boost global economic activity.
"For similar reasons we're not rushing into stablecoins," he said, referring to digital currencies such as Tether that seek to avoid the volatility typically associated with cryptocurrencies by pegging their value to assets such as the U.S. dollar.
"We are pivoting more into an investment and wealth provider rather than a full service digital bank," he said.
Goldman is shifting the focus of Marcus UK to wealth management to stay within UK banking rules which demand retail deposits totalling more than 25 billion pounds ($35 billion) be ring-fenced.
The bank is planning to tell employees to be prepared to start working from offices by mid-June, the report said, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
Wells Fargo & Co said in March it would start bringing workers back to its offices after Labor Day, while JPMorgan Chase & Co said last week it was targeting workers' return to office on a rotational basis from July.
The bank now sees Brent prices rising to $80 a barrel and US West Texas Intermediate (WTI) prices to $77 a barrel over the six month period.
The bank sees gold prices at $2,000 an ounce over the next six months and said it is too early for Bitcoin to compete with gold for safe haven demand, adding that the two can co-exist.
"Timelapse in Google Earth is about zooming out to assess the health and well-being of our only home, and is a tool that can educate and inspire action," the company said in a blog post.
Germany's gross domestic product will expand by 3.7 percent this year, according to five economic think tanks, revising down more optimistic predictions by one percentage point.
Profits soared in the first quarter at three US banking giants thanks to an improving macroeconomic backdrop that has reduced the need to set aside funds for bad loans.
While HSBC will allow the holding, sale and outgoing transfer of MicroStrategy shares, it will forbid new purchases or incoming transfers, said the message dated March 29.
Goldman Sachs said any potential recovery in Iranian oil exports would not be a shock to the market, and full recovery would not occur until summer 2022.
Spain's lofty targets to install wind farms and solar parks have caught the eyes of investors keen to deploy funds in a sector boosted by an international drive to cut planet-warming emissions.
Given the current volatility in the market around listed renewable energy companies and the foreseeable over-supply of stock market listings by other companies in the sector, now is not the right moment to list.
Jennifer Moss, a syndicated columnist who specializes in workplace issues, praised the moves, but said employers will need to follow through if they want to maintain their staff after the pandemic.
Last week, Reuters reported that a group of junior bankers in Goldman's investment bank told senior management that they were working nearly 100-hours a week and sleeping just 5 hours a night to keep up with record-setting demand from clients.
Set up in 2017, DgPays has a solutions and service ecosystem that consists of 24 institutions, the statement said, adding that it serves the vast majority of the banking industry in Turkey.
The statement did not specify the size of the investment by Goldman Sachs' asset management division and the EBRD but said it represents one of the most significant foreign investments in Turkey's fintech sector to date.
"We estimate that the oil market has remained in a large 2.5 million bpd deficit since February despite our estimate that Iran exports have increased by 0.7 million bpd year-to-date," Goldman said in a note dated March 18.