Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s stock short selling practices are being inspected by South Korea as part of a broader effort by the nation’s financial watchdog to clamp down on bets against equities. The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) also plans to examine Bank of America Merrill Lynch over how it conducts stock short sales. Morgan Stanley was picked due to the …

  Bloomberg The bolivar is plummeting, breaking a rare stretch of stability for Venezuela’s battered currency. It has lost a third of its value so far this month, hitting 9.08 bolivars per US dollar on the parallel exchange market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That’s the steepest monthly decline since January 2021. Controlling the exchange rate has been a …

  Bloomberg Bonds in Europe led a global selloff that lifted the two-year Treasury yield to levels last seen in 2007 as European Central Bank (ECB) policy makers joined their Federal Reserve counterparts in signalling aggressive tightening. Stocks sank with US futures and the dollar climbed. A global share index falls to a one-month low and European stocks extended last …