Bloomberg Mytheresa.com, the luxury online retailer specialising in women’s clothing, is planning a US listing in early 2021, people with knowledge of the matter said. The fast-growing German e-commerce company is working with advisers on preparations for a potential initial public offering, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. It plans to …

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd plans to raise as much as S$850 million ($630 million) via the sale of convertible bonds as it seeks to increase liquidity amid a pandemic that’s wiped out travel demand. The funds will be used for operating cash flow, to service debt and for capital expenditure, Singapore’s flagship carrier said in an exchange filing. The pricing …

Bloomberg Ford Motor Co, playing catch-up to Tesla Inc in electric cars, is rolling out a battery-powered cargo van to lay claim to a new segment of the commercial fleet market that its gas-powered vehicles dominate. Chief Executive Officer Jim Farley unveiled an electric version of its Transit model, the ubiquitous airport shuttle, delivery and service van that is the …

Bloomberg Walmart Inc is about to team up with Cruise LLC, the self- driving car unit majority-owned by General Motors Co, to experiment with delivering customer orders using driverless vehicles. Cruise’s robot-piloted cars will ferry orders to customers’ homes from a Walmart store in Scottsdale, Arizona, starting early next year, Tom Ward, the retailer’s senior vice president of customer product, …

Bloomberg Spotify Technology SA agreed to acquire Megaphone, which creates tools for podcast advertisers, in a deal that values the acquisition at $235 million. Founded by online news company Slate, Megaphone connects podcast publishers such as Vox and ESPN with networks of advertisers. Spotify will use Megaphone’s network and tools to offer advertising technology to thousands of podcasts. After building …

Bloomberg The Trump administration has given the owner of TikTok another 15 days to resolve national security concerns before it’s required to sell the viral video-sharing app. The app’s Chinese owner, ByteDance Ltd, said in a court filing that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US had granted it until November 27 to reach an agreement, extending a deadline. …

Abu Dhabi / WAM ADQ, one of the region’s largest holding companies with a broad portfolio of major enterprises spanning key sectors of Abu Dhabi’s diversified economy, announced on Wednesday that it has signed an agreement to acquire an indirect 45 percent equity stake in Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) a leading global merchant and processor of agricultural goods. As part …

Bloomberg Oil rises above $45 a barrel in London for the first time in 10 weeks as financial markets continued to advance on a vaccine breakthrough and US crude stockpiles appeared to retreat. Brent futures advanced in tandem with equity markets, having been buoyed initially this week by the election of Joe Biden as US president and then Pfizer Inc.’s …

Bloomberg China inked its first term deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from an American exporter since the trade war disrupted deliveries, a sign of confidence that relations with the US could be normalising. Foran Energy Group said it signed a framework agreement with US producer Cheniere Energy Inc to purchase 26 cargoes between 2021 and 2025. The deal …

Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc will push for the reversal of President Donald Trump’s rollback of methane emissions rules and the introduction of carbon pricing when Joe Biden moves into the White House next year. “Some of the regulatory rollbacks that we’ve seen under the current administration haven’t actually benefited our industry,” Shell US President Gretchen Watkins said. The oil …