Bloomberg UK travellers are bracing for further widespread disruption as airports and roads struggle to cope with a surge in people returning from Jubilee weekend getaways and London Tube workers head out on strike. Lengthy queues are expected at airport passport controls while roads will be clogged with 19 million drivers expected to get behind the wheel over the weekend, ...

  Bloomberg Walmart Inc said it needs another two quarters or so to work through an inventory surge that prompted markdowns and contributed to last month’s steep stock decline. About a fifth of the 32% jump in inventories last quarter came from merchandise piling up more quickly than the company wanted, said John Furner, chief of Walmart’s US operations. Another ...

  Bloomberg Starbucks said it’s reopening its stores in Shanghai after a wave of Covid-19 infections and government lockdowns hurt its business in key Chinese market. The Seattle-based company has reopened 600 of its 940 stores in the city, a spokeswoman said by email. Starbucks is moving quickly to restart business there on just the third day of Shanghai’s official ...

  Bloomberg Chinese banks are facing growing pressure to support cash-strapped developers after months of pleas by regulators failed to boost lending to the industry. Local branches at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have called for meetings with banks in multiple cities since last week to assess why loans have slowed, along with the difficulties faced by banks and ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is planning a fresh push into private credit across a range of strategies, according to people familiar with the plans. The plans include raising money from external investors to expand its offering in the $1.2 trillion market. The lender is seeking to raise about 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion) initially from new and existing investors ...

  Bloomberg Canadian banks have already raised more cash in bond markets than in the whole of 2021 as jitters about the global economy and conditions in the financial markets run high. With almost seven months to go in 2022, Canadian bank sales of corporate bonds in the domestic and international markets are close to C$168 billion dollars ($133.6 billion) ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) must pare back stimulus as inflation is too strong and too broad, Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said. In a speech at an economics conference in Paris, the Bank of France chief said that even a measure of core inflation — which strips out the impact of surging prices of food ...

  Bloomberg Hungary raised its key interest rate after the currency falls close to an all-time low following the central bank’s decision to slow the pace of some of its monetary tightening. The one-week deposit rate was raised by 30 basis points to 6.75%, highest effective rate in the EU and matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Deputy ...

  Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank cut its growth forecast for this year and next, as the country’s recovery continues to sputter amid supply chain shortages and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Banxico, as the central bank is known, sees gross domestic product expanding 2.2% for this year in the main scenario of its quarterly inflation report released Wednesday. ...

  Bloomberg The Philippine peso has weakened beyond a key level of support to a three-year low, paving the way for further declines. The currency slid past support around 52.50 per dollar that had held since the middle of March as it tumbled as much as 0.5% to 52.76, the weakest since March 2019. The peso came back under pressure ...