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Bolsonaro, Lula battle for votes in Brazil’s largest state

Bloomberg The front-runners in Brazil’s presidential election are seeking support in the country’s most populous state, where the polling gap between them has narrowed in the last days of the campaign. President Jair Bolsonaro attended an event in Campinas, one of the biggest cities in Sao Paulo state, in the morning, before taking part in a televised debate Saturday night. ...

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Czech opposition group wins vote in large cities

  Bloomberg The main Czech opposition group won in most large cities in weekend municipal elections, mobilizing protest votes against the government’s handling of the energy crisis. The ANO party of billionaire former Prime Minister Andrej Babis came on top in eight of 13 regional centers, while losing to government parties in the capital Prague and in the second biggest ...

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Barclays sued by investors over multibillion securities blunder

Bloomberg Barclays Plc was sued by shareholders who claim they suffered significant losses after the British lender disclosed that paperwork errors led it to accidentally issue billions of dollars more in structured and exchange-traded notes than it had registered for sale. The bank and its executives “made materially false and misleading statements” and failed to disclose important information about both ...

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