Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc said it will cut fares at the expense of profitability in a bid to pack planes and grab market share as European travel demand rebounds. The low-cost carrier posted a second-quarter profit but forecast a 200 million-euro ($232 million) operating loss for the current three months that “may carry over” into early 2022. Wizz, already ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co directors agreed to a $237.5 million settlement of claims they turned a blind eye to safety issues related to 737 Max jetliners whose crashes have cost the company more than $20 billion, according to court documents. The settlement, which is being paid by insurers covering Boeing’s directors and executives, will be handed over to the company rather ...

Bloomberg Selfridges & Co held discussions with potential investors about splitting off its e-commerce business while also considering a potential sale of the department store group, according to people familiar with the matter. The luxury emporium, best known for its giant department store on London’s Oxford Street, considered spinning off Selfridges.com from its lucrative property holdings, which are far larger ...

Bloomberg Bed Bath & Beyond Inc soared in late trading after announcing accelerated share buybacks and the launch of a new digital marketplace for merchandise from third-party producers. The company said it expects to complete its $1 billion share repurchase plan by the end of its fiscal year in February — two years ahead of schedule. There is $400 million ...

Bloomberg As the world’s powers wrestle over the future of the planet in Glasgow, another politically fractious issue will play out on the sidelines of the COP26 summit — Taiwan’s exclusion from international organisations. Two weeks after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called for Taiwan to have a greater role at the United Nations, a delegation from Taipei, led ...

Bloomberg The recent coup in Sudan puts into question a July Paris Club agreement to rework $23.5 billion of Sudan’s debt, France’s foreign ministry said in a statement. “It is obvious that the October 25 military coup puts the process into question,” the ministry said. Debt cancellation was part of France’s support to democratic transition, it said. The US already ...

Bloomberg The woman most likely to become Sweden’s next prime minister began her tenure as leader of the ruling party by taking a dig at Wall Street bankers. In her first speech to the Social Democratic Party after her election, Magdalena Andersson recalled encounters with “grinning bankers” who said her country’s welfare model was doomed after Sweden’s financial crisis in ...

Bloomberg US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s struggle to deliver on President Joe Biden’s two biggest policy priorities has illustrated the distrust and divisions within her party at a time Democrats desperately want to show they can govern. Democrats eked out a victory on a $550 billion public works bill after months of wrangling between moderates and progressives. As soon as ...

Bloomberg Chile’s conservative candidate Jose Antonio Kast would beat both of main leftist contenders in a presidential runoff, according to one of the final polls released ahead of the highly-contested election. Kast got 44% of support while leftist rival Gabriel Boric got 40% in a second-round vote, according to a survey by Cadem. Kast would also edge out Yasna Provoste ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said the US economy is recovering from the pandemic faster and stronger than expected, after a report showing the labour market got back on track last month with broad-based payroll gains. “America is getting back to work; our economy is starting to work for more Americans,” Biden said at the White House. “Our economy is on ...