Bloomberg New Zealand banks are calling on the Reserve Bank to delay implementation of new mortgage lending restrictions such as debt-to-income ratios as the housing market cools. Existing restrictions and rising interest rates are already slowing home-lending growth, and banks are concerned the introduction of further limits could have “unintended consequences,” the New Zealand Bankers Association said in a …

  Bloomberg US stock-index futures advanced as investors eyed cheaper valuations even as they remained concerned about global growth amid a raging war in Ukraine and an impending rate-hike cycle at the Federal Reserve. Contracts on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes added 0.5% each, after swinging between gains and losses at least six times. Europe’s Stoxx 600 gauge …

  Bloomberg European stocks headed for their first weekly gain since the start of the Ukraine war as investors mulled central bank policy decisions and the outlook for economic growth. The Stoxx 600 Index was up 0.9% in London after briefly falling as much as 0.2% as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine caused continued volatility. Travel and leisure and mining stocks …