Bloomberg Bank of Nova Scotia is set to become Canada’s first bank to sell a junior bond known as limited recourse capital notes in a currency other than loonies. Toronto-based Scotiabank is reaching out to US dollar-based investors before deciding to go ahead with the deal. In June, the bank sold LRCNs in the Canadian dollar corporate bond market. Canadian …

Bloomberg Brazil’s central bank assessed the costs and benefits of bigger interest rate hikes but concluded that its current pace of monetary tightening would be sufficient to bring inflation back to target. The current adjustment has already left interest rates in a restrictive level and uncertainties related to the pandemic justify “accumulating more information about the state of the economy …

Bloomberg Think the selloff in technology stocks has been bad? If US Treasury yields keep rising, it’s probably going to get worse. That’s the widespread thinking on Wall Street as the surge in yields batters growth stocks that have been trading at lofty levels. That’s helped fuel a 2.9% drop in the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index on Tuesday, led by …