Bloomberg The chief executive officer of Tesco Plc received 4.7 million pounds ($ 5.7 million) last year after he helped steer Britain’s biggest grocer and private sector employer through the Covid-19 pandemic. Most of Ken Murphy’s bumper package was driven by performance-related bonuses for helping Tesco manage severe staff shortages, panic-buying and major supply chain blockages as Covid infections …

Bloomberg South Africa’s government has retained special voting rights in the country’s national carrier even after selling a majority stake, and will be given 3 billion rand ($186 million) in preference shares that can be redeemed through future cashflow. That means the state stands to benefit should new owner, the Takatso Consortium, revive a carrier that’s struggled under years of …

Bloomberg Wanted: Hundreds of people to sit in a plane for 20 hours. Must be willing to pay lots of money. Claustrophobes needn’t apply. Conceived prior to the Covid crisis, Qantas Airways Ltd’s plan to operate the world’s longest nonstop commercial flights from southeast Australia to New York and London is being resurrected in a much-changed aviation landscape, with global …

  Bloomberg A lawyer for American Airlines Group Inc urged a jury to award the carrier almost $300 million in overcharges and lost profits, arguing that Sabre Holdings Corp illegally dominated the market for booking airline tickets. “There’s one company in this travel business that doesn’t compete,” Paul Yetter told the jurors at the end of a three-week federal trial …

  Bloomberg Shein, the Chinese fast fashion giant that’s quickly become the third-most valuable startup in the world, is seeing a reality check with sales growth slowing from the lofty heights of the pandemic, just as it faces mounting pressure to live up to a $100 billion valuation. The online-only retailer of inexpensive clothes, beauty and lifestyle products has become …

  Bloomberg India’s central bank will raise its inflation forecast in the June monetary policy meeting amid elevated commodity prices, possibly setting the stage for more interest rate increases by August, a person familiar with the matter said. There is also a growing chance that inflation will breach the upper end of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) targeted 2%-6% …

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG will name two veterans to lead its Asia-Pacific financing group in a bid to shore up one of its most profitable businesses in the region after a series global scandals triggered billions of dollars in losses and departures of senior executives at the Swiss bank. The Zurich-based lender will name Tim Tu, who just …

  Bloomberg Nomura Holdings Inc. has hired four traders from Citigroup Inc., and six others from elsewhere, as it rebuilds its macro desks globally with a focus on foreign exchange. Dipak Shah, Sidi Mohamed Saaf, Matthew Rupsis and Christopher Torrington have recently joined Nomura from Citigroup in a variety of roles to help the Japanese lender boost its forward and …

  Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s central bank chief imposed more capital controls and threatened to resign if politicians fail to return stability to the nation, which is in the grip of its worst economic crisis since independence. “I took on this responsibility with expectations that political stability will be established,” Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe said in Colombo. Weerasinghe’s briefing comes amid an …

  Bloomberg Nu Holdings Ltd, a Brazilian digital bank backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, partnered with blockchain startup Paxos Trust Co to allow its customers to trade cryptocurrencies. Nubank’s more than 50 million customers will initially be able to trade Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to Paxos Chief Executive Michael Coscetta. Paxos has seen demand increase for digital assets …