Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is heading for a thumping defeat in this month’s special election in Wakefield, according to a poll published in the Sunday Times, a result that would heighten speculation over the prime minister’s long-term future. According to a JL Partners survey of 501 adults in Wakefield, the main opposition Labour Party has 48% support. Wakefield in ...

Bloomberg Leftist candidate Gustavo Petro retook the lead in Colombia’s presidential election race, according to a Centro Nacional de Consultoria poll published by Semana magazine. Petro had 44.9% support compared to 41% for construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez, the survey found. The poll of 2,172 people was conducted between May 31 and June 2 and has a margin of error of ...

Bloomberg Denmark’s prime minister said she’s open to a grand coalition that would include her political rivals in what would be the first such move in the Nordic country in more than four decades. Mette Frederiksen said the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine had made her back the idea because the government and the opposition have worked closely ...

Bloomberg The deadly assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 shocked viewers watching live around the world and, at least in the moment, infuriated Republican congressional leaders who fulminated among themselves against the role Donald Trump and his allies played in egging on the rioters. But the short-lived horror over the worst attack on the seat of US ...

  Bloomberg Mexico’s ruling Morena party is projected to expand its power further beyond President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s traditional southern strongholds in gubernatorial elections, winning four of six elections in states it doesn’t currently control. The election is a litmus test of Lopez Obrador’s support after three and a half years of rule, and of the strength of opposition ...

  Bloomberg Chinese banks are facing growing pressure to support cash-strapped developers after months of pleas by regulators failed to boost lending to the industry. Local branches at the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) have called for meetings with banks in multiple cities since last week to assess why loans have slowed, along with the difficulties faced by banks and ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG is planning a fresh push into private credit across a range of strategies, according to people familiar with the plans. The plans include raising money from external investors to expand its offering in the $1.2 trillion market. The lender is seeking to raise about 2 billion euros ($2.14 billion) initially from new and existing investors ...

  Bloomberg Canadian banks have already raised more cash in bond markets than in the whole of 2021 as jitters about the global economy and conditions in the financial markets run high. With almost seven months to go in 2022, Canadian bank sales of corporate bonds in the domestic and international markets are close to C$168 billion dollars ($133.6 billion) ...

  Bloomberg The European Central Bank (ECB) must pare back stimulus as inflation is too strong and too broad, Governing Council member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said. In a speech at an economics conference in Paris, the Bank of France chief said that even a measure of core inflation — which strips out the impact of surging prices of food ...

  Bloomberg Hungary raised its key interest rate after the currency falls close to an all-time low following the central bank’s decision to slow the pace of some of its monetary tightening. The one-week deposit rate was raised by 30 basis points to 6.75%, highest effective rate in the EU and matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Deputy ...