Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has shuttered Prime Pantry, a grocery and household essentials delivery service that was one of the retailer’s early forays into selling food online. The program closed last week, an Amazon spokeswoman said, and thousands of products previously available under the Prime Pantry banner were folded into the company’s main retail site. Launched in 2014, Prime Pantry featured ...
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WestJet Airlines cuts routes, cites ‘incoherent’ Canada Covid rules
Bloomberg WestJet Airlines Ltd said it would reduce capacity by a further 30% in February and March, affecting the jobs or pay of roughly 1,000 employees and bringing the number of domestic and international flights it operates down to levels not seen in almost 20 years. The cuts come after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government ordered travellers to present a ...
Read More »Ryanair slashes flight schedule after UK lockdown
Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc slashed its winter schedule, while denouncing new coronavirus-related travel restrictions as “draconian†and calling for faster vaccine rollouts in the UK and its home country of Ireland. Europe’s biggest discount airline said it will offer few flights from January 21 until the travel curbs are lifted. The cutbacks go beyond ones made earlier in the week ...
Read More »Shopify shuts down Trump organisation’s online stores
Bloomberg Shopify Inc said it shut down e-commerce stores affiliated with President Donald Trump in response to the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters. “We have terminated stores affiliated with President Trump,†a company spokeswoman said by email. “Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence.†The shutdown affects the Trump Organization’s official store, TrumpStore.com, and a campaign ...
Read More »Louis Vuitton executive to lead Tiffany
Bloomberg A top executive at Louis Vuitton and one of Bernard Arnault’s sons are set to take over management of Tiffany & Co after the biggest acquisition in the luxury industry by LVMH. Anthony Ledru will be chief executive officer, with Alexandre Arnault being responsible for products and communications inside the brand, the company said, confirming a Bloomberg report they ...
Read More »North Korea greets Biden with plans to boost nuclear arsenal
Bloomberg Kim Jong Un will put North Korea on a path to develop more advanced nuclear technologies and missiles, sending a chilling warning to President-elect Joe Biden that the Asian leader is ready to ratchet up security tensions. Kim called the US a “war monster†and his “biggest main enemy,†at the first Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea ...
Read More »Donald Trump’s role in Capitol riot may figure in criminal probe
Bloomberg The US charged 55 people with crimes stemming from the siege of the US Capitol and President Donald Trump’s actions ahead of the riot may be investigated by federal prosecutors. Asked whether the US Attorney’s office would scrutinise the president’s role in inciting the storming of the Capitol, Michael Sherwin, the acting US Attorney in Washington, said at a ...
Read More »Pelosi moves cautiously against Trump as Biden focuses on agenda
Bloomberg House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving cautiously as she faces pressure from angry Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump for a second time, while President-elect Joe Biden is making it clear he wants to focus on his agenda and fighting the coronavirus. With many House Democrats demanding impeachment after Trump encouraged a mob that stormed the Capitol this week, ...
Read More »HK blocks local website on ‘security grounds’
Bloomberg Hong Kong police blocked a local website and cited National Security Law for the first time in doing so. The National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force has blocked hkchronicles.com, without specifying which content violated the law. The website often features pro-democracy articles. Ming Pao reported Hong Kong police declined to comment on individual cases, but the ...
Read More »Goldman traders score $2b in commodities’ comeback year
Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s commodities traders doubled their revenue haul in 2020 — another sign that Wall Street desks managed to print profits into the year’s finale, even as market mayhem subsided. Goldman’s business generated more than $2 billion in revenue for its best annual showing in about a decade, according to people with knowledge of the matter. That ...
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