Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s revenue from investment banking plummeted as capital markets seized up, underlining a slow quarter for Wall Street as a dour outlook for the economy muddles the path forward. The firm’s investment-banking group posted $1.07 billion in revenue, down 55% from a year earlier, a bigger decline than the 47% drop analysts had predicted. The bank also …

  Bloomberg The Bank of Korea (BOK) doubled the margin of its latest rate increase and promised more hikes to come, as it stepped up its battle against inflation now running at a 23-year high. The central bank joined a global wave of larger rate increases by pushing up its seven-day repurchase rate by a half-percentage point to 2.25% as …

  Bloomberg Argentina’s central bank is in talks with private lenders about adding a put option to its local bonds that would compel the monetary authority to buy back the notes if prices fall too far. Technical staff from private banks met with the central bank’s general manager, Agustin Torcassi, to discuss the possibility, according to people with direct knowledge …