Bloomberg Sudan Airways, the national carrier that’s cut almost all flights, may fire 80 percent of staff as it awaits benefits from the lifting of two-decade-old US sanctions, a state minister for transport said. The airline will probably dismiss 1,200 of its 1,500 employees as it tries to overcome difficulties in international banking transactions and importing vital spare parts, according …

Bloomberg Debenhams Plc tumbled after the UK department-store operator said its chief financial officer is leaving to join a rival, and profit will be at the lower end of an already-reduced forecast range. Following a holiday season in which UK consumers shifted to e-commerce merchants such as Amazon.com Inc. and hunted for bargains, full-year pretax profit will be at the …

Bloomberg Procter & Gamble Co. agreed to buy Merck KGaA’s consumer-health business for 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to bolster growth, betting that vitamins and decongestants can hasten its comeback. The deal gives the maker of Crest toothpaste a stable of products with sales growth of 6 percent in the past two years, double the pace of traditional consumer goods …

Bloomberg There are many depictions of a future in which we’ve mastered the art of manipulating the opacity of glass. Even in real life, sunglasses can adapt to the intensity of sunlight. So why, one might ask, can’t we have that in our homes, or at work? The wait may soon be over. The tinted world of tomorrow is coming, …

Emirates Business Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties, on Wednesday announced the launch of the company’s first hotel and residences project in Ras Al Khaimah, at the Arabian Hospitality Investment Conference 2018. Located in the Views island of Al Marjan Island, a four-island mega-development, Address Al Marjan Island hotel and residences will be managed by Emaar Hospitality Group’s premium lifestyle …

Kuala Lumpur / WAM The Emirates Defence Companies Council (EDCC) discussed prospects of joint cooperation and exchange of knowledge with the Korea Defence Industry Association (KDIA) on the sidelines of its participation in the Defence Services Asia (DSA) Exhibition 2018, in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. A KDIA delegation, headed by Yung Ho Kim, Vice Chairman of the KDIA, visited …

Bloomberg OPEC and Russia will meet in Saudi Arabia this week after all but banishing a global oil glut. While looming political crises threaten to tighten supplies further, the group seems determined to keep its cuts in place. Almost 16 months of output curbs by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its partners have seen crude rally to a …

Bloomberg US stocks edged higher as investors parsed a mixed bag of earnings and energy producers got a boost from rising oil prices. Treasuries fell. The S&P 500 Index gained for a third day, but technology shares were under pressure as IBM Corp. tumbled after posting weak results. Morgan Stanley’s record profit lifted bank shares. Oil surged about 2 percent …

Bloomberg Nasdaq Inc. is reviewing its systems to avoid a repeat of an hours-long shutdown in trading across the Nordic and Baltic markets, which prompted regulators to question its preparedness and forced Sweden to postpone a bond auction. Trading went down on Wednesday morning across the region and didn’t start up after an “errant fire extinguisher system” caused “connectivity issues” …

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. is stepping up inspections on its jet fleet after investigators said they discovered evidence of metal fatigue on an engine that exploded on April 17, sending shrapnel into the plane and killing a passenger seated near a window. The woman was partly sucked out of the plane carrying 149 people as it flew about 32,500 feet …