Bloomberg J Sainsbury Plc said profit will fall this year as normal shopping habits return following the end of lockdowns and as shoppers feel squeezed by the higher cost of living. The supermarket chain forecast underlying profit before tax of 630 million pounds ($788 million) to 690 million pounds in the year through March, citing “significant external pressures and uncertainties.” ...

  Bloomberg Airbus SE has agreed on a partnership with Italy’s ITA Airways that will see the two companies work together towards eventual deployment of the planemaker’s CityAirbus NextGen flying taxi in the country. A memorandum of understanding details cooperation in areas including recruitment of local partners, identification of markets and the creation of pilot projects, the companies said in ...

Bloomberg Air New Zealand will move its head office to a new campus at Auckland Airport, vacating its central city site to reduce costs and get all staff at a single location. The airline has approved in-principle a project to centralise its Auckland workforce at a refurbished airport campus by 2024, it said. It will also proceed with construction of ...

  Bloomberg Aerospace and defense giant Raytheon Technologies Corp cut its 2022 sales forecast and warned of potential supplier constraints as it ends commercial ties with Russian customers and a titanium supplier. “We’re done in Russia. Full stop,” Raytheon’s Chief Executive Officer Greg Hayes said of the aerospace and defense conglomerate’s dealings with Russia in the wake of the nation’s ...

  Bloomberg An aircraft landing scare in Paris earlier this month most likely resulted from the Air France pilots submitting contradictory commands, rather than any malfunction of the plane, according France’s air-safety investigator. No failure warnings were activated and no anomaly was observed with the Boeing Co 777 in the incident, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses said. Flight AF011 from ...

  Bloomberg Unilever Plc is increasing the pressure on consumers worldwide with higher prices for Dove soap, raising the risk that shoppers may start to balk at spending more. All company reported sales growth at about double the pace analysts had expected. Unilever forecast full-year revenue growth at the top end of its forecast, though warned that profitability may suffer ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG raised the outlook for its investment bank after fixed-income traders outperformed Wall Street peers for a seventh straight quarter, boosting Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing in the final year of his turnaround plan. Revenue from buying and selling fixed-income securities rise 15% from a year earlier, beating the biggest US investment banks, where the business ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group reported a bigger-than-expected loss, parted ways with three senior executives and warned that the full damage from one of the most turbulent periods in its history is yet to be accounted for. The Zurich-based bank posted a net loss of 273 million Swiss francs ($284 million), in the first quarter driven by 703 million francs in ...

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered (StanChart) Plc shares surged after it beat estimates in the first quarter and the lender said revenue would climb more this year than the previously predicted. Underlying pretax profit posted a surprise 4% rise to $1.5 billion in the period on a jump from its trading business, the London-based bank said in a statement on Thursday. Revenue ...

Bloomberg Shares of Facebook parent company Meta Platforms Inc. surged during pre-market hours on Thursday, a day after reporting its main platform added more users than projected in the first quarter, potentially staving off concerns that the company is losing momentum as a new generation flocks to younger sites like TikTok. The stock gained as much as 19% during pre-market ...