Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. declined after Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Gustavo Arnal falls to his death from a Manhattan skyscraper. The shares of the struggling home-goods retailer slumped by as much as 25% in pre-market activity on Tuesday, the first day of trading after the US Labour Day weekend. The Union, New Jersey-based company confirmed on Sunday that …

  Bloomberg Australia’s central bank raised interest rates by a half-percentage point for a fourth consecutive meeting and signalled further hikes ahead in its drive to rein in inflation. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) took the cash rate to 2.35%, the highest level since 2015, in a widely expected announcement on Tuesday. The tightening is Australia’s quickest in a …

Bloomberg France is considering changes to mortgage lending rules to ensure credit to households as the European Central Bank delivers sharp rate increases to counter surging inflation. At present, French regulations cap rates that banks can offer based on average rates in the past quarter plus an extra premium. Some banks have become reluctant to accept loan applications as rates …