Bloomberg Sweden’s household lending grew last month at the slowest pace on record, as rates rise and home prices plunge. In November, lending to households grew by 4.1%, which is the lowest annual increase since Statistics Sweden began collecting the data in 2006. Mortgages accounted for 82% of all new loans, the office said in a statement. New lending …

  Bloomberg Customers of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX sued in bankruptcy court in hopes of being first in line to recover some of the billions lost in the meltdown of Sam Bankman-Fried’s digital-asset empire. A group of four FTX customers asked a bankruptcy judge to rule their holdings in the Bahamas-based exchange belong to them, rather than FTX. They want …

  Bloomberg Stocks in Europe struggled for direction along with US equity futures as news of further moves by China to reopen its economy failed to lift investor sentiment in the final week of a dismal year for markets. The Stoxx Europe 600 index erased an early advance, with carmakers and technology stocks leading declines. Basic-resources stocks rose as prices …