Bloomberg Amazon.com’s two-day Prime Day sale kicked off on Tuesday, which is expected to give the world’s largest e-commerce company an early advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals still contending with pandemic-spooked consumers wary of battling Black Friday crowds. With Prime Day delayed to October from July this year, Amazon single-handedly could yank the pivotal holiday season forward — a long-predicted “Christmas ...

Bloomberg Apollo Global Management Inc’s Sun Country Airlines is planning to restart its push for an initial public offering as soon as next year if travel demand picks up across the industry, said the carrier’s top executive. Sun Country’s core business of taking Midwest leisure travellers to Florida, Las Vegas and other warm-weather destinations has already recovered enough to turn ...

Bloomberg Allegiant Airlines is weighing purchases of used Airbus SE planes as soon as early 2021, bucking an unprecedented travel collapse that has gutted demand for jetliners. The carrier has been “inundated” with calls from airlines and aircraft lessors seeking to sell planes at deep discounts as they contend with the coronavirus pandemic, said Allegiant Chief Financial Officer Greg Anderson. ...

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd said all seats on its Airbus SE A380 jetliner pop-up restaurants were reserved within 30 minutes of bookings opening. With flights largely grounded by the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore Airlines is trying novel ways to raise money, including using two of the superjumbos parked at Changi Airport as temporary eateries. A meal in a suite costs S$642 ...

Bloomberg Pilots of an Airbus SE A320neo jet in India shut down a Pratt & Whitney engine mid-air last month after it encountered problems, people familiar with the incident said, reviving concerns about the turbines that have been plagued by issues since their debut in early 2016. The twin-engine jet, operated by Go Airlines India Ltd, landed safely using its ...

Bloomberg Poland’s newest stock listing was a roaring success on its first day of trading, taking over as the biggest stock on the country’s main exchange and adding almost two-thirds in market value. Allegro.eu SA shares jumped 63% to close at 70 zloty in its first trading session in Warsaw on October 12, lifting the company’s value to 72 billion ...

Bloomberg European stocks edged lower with US equity futures as investors weighed a potential setback on progress toward a coronavirus vaccine ahead of a busy period for corporate earnings. The dollar and Treasuries advanced. S&P 500 contracts fall as much as 0.6% after a report that Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine study has been paused due to an unexplained illness ...

Bloomberg India’s stock benchmark eked out gains to rise for a ninth straight day, as investors shrugged off concerns about a halt in Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine study and rising domestic inflation. The S&P BSE Sensex closed up 0.1%, after swinging between gains of 0.5% and losses of 0.3% following Johnson & Johnson’s announcement that its study had been ...

ABU DHABI / WAM NTS Group acquired Amega West Services, a market leader in the manufacture, repair and rental of legacy and specialised drilling equipment used in offshore and land-based Oil & Gas extraction applications, from Carpenter Technology Corporation. With headquarters in Houston and founded in 2007, Amega West has production and service plants in the United States, Canada and ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s homegrown investment bankers are rapidly losing their status as city’s go-to dealmakers, supplanted by mainland Chinese rivals who now hold a majority of senior jobs in Asia’s biggest financial hub. While the shift has long seemed inevitable given the expanding pool of mainland talent and dominant role of Chinese issuers in Hong Kong, the recent pace of ...