Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc, the struggling retailer turned meme-trader darling, skidded as much as 21% in postmarket trading after a top investor suggested he has soured on the stock. Ryan Cohen’s RC Ventures said in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission that it might sell as much as 7.78 million shares of Bed Bath …

  Bloomberg After years of eschewing the world’s safest assets, the managers of Australia’s $2.4 trillion of retirements savings are buying sovereign bonds. The trigger: fear that the global economy is sliding into recession. It’s a watershed moment for the country’s pension chiefs, whose love affair with riskier assets saw them binge on stocks while skirting this year’s historic bond …

  Bloomberg US equity-index futures pared losses in a volatile session after the Federal Reserve signalled a delicate balancing act that would see inflation-busting rate hikes continue despite a weakening economy. September contracts on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 slid about 0.1% after the underlying benchmarks posted losses. The two-year Treasury yield, the most sensitive to monetary tightening, fluctuated …