The Federal Reserve and Bank of England left interest rates unchanged this week, while both left the door open to additional increases should inflation prove persistent. Policymakers in the US made their decision unanimously, while those in the UK were split. Meantime, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda tamped down speculation of a near-term interest rate hike after the central bank chose to stick with its ultra-easy stimulus. Here are some of the charts that appeared on Bloomberg this week on...

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. analysts are playing down what appeared to be an alarming slump in US lending in the second half of March, included in data released by the Federal Reserve on Friday. Commercial bank lending dropped nearly $105 billion in the two weeks ended March 29, the most in Fed data going back to 1973. However, the majority of that reflected a transfer of the assets of collapsed lenders Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank into receivership at the Federal Deposit Insurance...

Trades up to $5 million ‘extremely easy’ to do electronically Larger orders still prove difficult for investors to execute Investors are finding less is more when it comes to corporate bond trading. Electronic-trading technology has matured to the point that about three-quarters of credit investors say they can easily buy or sell orders up to $5 million, according to research by Greenwich Associates. That compares with about one third in 2016, the financial-services consulting firm’s report...