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Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc shares plunged in premarket trading on Wednesday after the home-goods retailer announced in a filing that it may offer, issue and sell shares of its common stock from time to time. Shares in the retail-trader favourite sink as much as 21% as of 6:42 am New York time, erasing an earlier gain of as ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc sees soaring inflation, Brexit-related challenges and a potential recession threatening the aviation industry’s recovery as a summer boom draws to a close. While Europe’s biggest discount carrier is maintaining plans to boost winter capacity and continues to see strong growth, the resurgence is fragile and prone to external shocks that also include an escalation in ...

Bloomberg An investor group including Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines Inc. looks primed to buy Italy’s fledgling state-controlled carrier, after being selected over a rival bid from a team that included Deutsche Lufthansa AG. The Rome-based Finance Ministry, which is running the process to find a new owner for ITA Airways, said on Wednesday that it will start exclusive ...

  Bloomberg Hong Kong’s retail sales rose more than expected in July, reversing two months of declines as the city attempts to mount a recovery from Covid-19 curbs and other headwinds. Retail sales value rose 4.1% in July from a year ago, the Census and Statistics Department said on Wednesday. That compared to a median estimate of a 1.4% rise ...

Bloomberg Taiwan warned it faces “severe military challenges” from surging Chinese military activity edging closer to the island, as Beijing tries to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait. Taipei expects the People’s Liberation Army to continue sending warships and jets across the median line that divides the waterway, the island’s Ministry of National Defense said in an annual ...

  Bloomberg A court in Pakistan told former Prime Minister Imran Khan to explain in writing his angry comments against a female judge who had denied bail to Khan’s close aid, as it continues to mull initiating contempt proceedings against him. A five-judge panel headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah directed the former leader to submit a response within a ...

Bloomberg German inflation accelerated to the most since the euro was introduced on soaring energy prices, bolstering calls for a jumbo interest-rate increase when the European Central Bank meets next week. Consumer prices in Europe’s biggest economy, calculated under European Union harmonised standards, jumped 8.8% from a year ago in August, matching the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of ...

  Bloomberg US job openings rise unexpectedly in July after a sizable upward revision to the previous month, underscoring persistent tightness in the labour market as employers compete for a limited supply of workers. The number of available positions edged up to 11.2 million in the month — topping all estimates — from a revised 11 million in June, the ...

  Bloomberg Swedish housing prices will continue falling until the middle of next year as the share of household income that goes towards mortgage interest payments is set to double, economists at the Nordic region’s largest bank said in a new forecast. Nordea Bank Abp now expects prices to drop 15% from a peak earlier this year, which is larger ...

  Bloomberg Canada’s current account surplus came in much less than expected, as rising oil profits to foreign investors offset a surge in energy revenue. The country ran a current account surplus of C$2.7 billion ($2.1 billion) in the second quarter, Statistics Canada reported, well short of the C$6.8 billion projected by economists. The agency also cut its estimate for ...