Bloomberg Home Depot Inc employees based in Philadelphia have filed a petition to unionise, according to a National Labor Relations Board filing, a rare move at the home-improvement retailer amid a growing nationwide labor movement. The 274 employees included in the petition work in merchandising, specialty and operations associates, according to the NLRB filing. The petition was originally filed earlier, …

Bloomberg UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s new government has looked at changing the Bank of England’s (BOE) money-printing program to save the UK taxpayer billions of pounds at a time when the public finances are under increasing strain. Under the option, interest paid on some deposits held by commercial lenders at the BOE would be scrapped, potentially saving more than …

  Bloomberg Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is merging its RBC Ventures partnership group with its RBCx technology banking and innovation arm in a bid to capture more business from entrepreneurs at all stages of their startups’ growth. Sid Paquette, who has led both RBCx and Ventures since April, will head the combined business, the Toronto-based bank said in a …