Bloomberg Airbus SE’s latest monthly order tally signalled a big change for India’s IndiGo. The planemaker’s biggest customer for the A320neo is upgrading 125 of its existing orders for the narrowbody’s bigger sister model. IndiGo, one of the few Indian carriers with enough cash to aggressively expand, has been mapping out a way to build a long-haul, low-cost business taking ...

Bloomberg Venezuelan airline Aerolineas Estelar Latinoamerica CA will begin to offer a direct flight from Caracas to New York more than two years after the route disappeared from its itineraries. Isolated Venezuelans have few options when flying. Carriers such as Delta Air Lines Inc., Latam Airlines SA and Avianca Holdings SA have scrapped flights to Caracas for security reasons as ...

Bloomberg Buy high, sell low and guarantee a loss. It’s not exactly what Toshiba Corp planned when it dipped its toes in liquefied natural gas trading. Yet that’s exactly how it turned out, as the Japanese industrial giant capped off its five-year misadventure in LNG by paying ENN Ecological Holdings Co $806 million to take its interest in a US ...

Bloomberg The oil fields of West Texas don’t sit still for long. Take Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.’s operations, for instance. Just three months after moving drill rigs out of the Permian Basin because of pipeline shortages, the Houston-based explorer is already talking about bringing them back in the middle of next year. That’s one of several signs the end ...

Bloomberg Almost two years after Exxon Mobil Corp removed billions of barrels of oil-sands crude from its reserves, its Imperial Oil Ltd unit is investing again, saying low Canadian crude prices that scared off the other majors make it a perfect time to build. Imperial Chief Executive Officer Rich Kruger puts the rationale for the C$2.6 billion ($2 billion) Aspen ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping’s mantra that homes should be for living in is falling on deaf ears, with tens of millions of apartments and houses standing empty across the country. Soon-to-be-published research will show roughly 22 percent of China’s urban housing stock is unoccupied, according to Professor Gan Li, who runs the main nationwide study. That adds up to ...

Bloomberg India’s government is asking the central bank to hand over a part of its surplus reserves and loosen liquidity norms for lenders — demands that are likely to escalate a standoff with the monetary authority that’s fiercely protective of its independence. The matter is pending before the board of the Reserve Bank of India and may be taken up ...

Bloomberg It’s time to start loading up on “cheap” yen. Using options to bet on gains for Japan’s currency is a smart wager for 2019, according to Societe Generale. The yen reached its weakest since early October, before recovering as concern over China’s economy fuelled declines in global equities and eroded risk appetite. The yen traded at 113.85 per dollar ...

Bloomberg China’s biggest banks dragged down the stock market as investors took a dim view of the government’s unprecedented move to tell firms exactly how much they must lend to the country’s struggling private sector. At least a third of new loans should go to non-state companies, Guo Shuqing, chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, said. Private ...

Bloomberg The man poised to become chairman of Danske Bank A/S is aware that the task ahead is huge. If elected to the post this month, Karsten Dybvad says he and the board will spend the “coming years” trying to “restore confidence in the bank.” The 62-year-old trained economist has been handpicked by Danske’s biggest shareholder, A.P. Moller Holding A/S. ...