Bloomberg Walmart Inc has taken on 25,000 new employees and given offers to thousands more in the first week of a hiring push, as the biggest private employer in the US scrambles to keep its shelves stocked and checkouts staffed during the coronavirus pandemic. The retailer has compressed a hiring process that can often take two weeks into as little ...

Bloomberg Seven airlines in Thailand are set to start talks with the Finance Ministry for a 16 billion baht ($491 million) bailout, the Bangkok Post reported. The airlines have jointly agreed to seek help, the newspaper said, citing Tassapon Bijleveld, executive chairman of Asia Aviation Pcl, the largest shareholder of Thai AirAsia. The seven carriers are Thai AirAsia, Thai Lion ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co is losing “big money” on every flight, raising the risk of worker furloughs in the longer-term despite billions of dollars in immediate aid from the US government. The biggest US discounter is “appreciative” of the package of loans and cash assistance approved by the Senate and awaiting a vote in the House of Representatives, CEO Gary ...

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines (SIA) shares fell after the carrier unveiled a plan to raise about S$8.8 billion ($6.2 billion) to contend with the devastating impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The company will issue S$5.3 billion in new stock at S$3 apiece, 54% lower than the last closing price last week, as well as convertible bonds, according to a statement. State ...

Bloomberg LVMH said revenue for the last quarter dropped 10% to 20%, compared with the same period last year, as its luxury brands temporarily closed stores and shoppers tightened their wallets due to the coronavirus pandemic. The French luxury-goods maker will disclose first-quarter results on April 16. The company said the outbreak’s full impact “cannot be accurately calculated at this ...

Felecia Rotellini’s father, who is 104, was incensed when his family took away his car keys two years ago. He was born in a Wyoming company town that no longer exists because the coal company that owned the town is long gone. The town of Cambria, and elsewhere in Wyoming, had many coal-mining immigrants from Italy, including some relatives of ...

First it was the Olympics, and now this! Apple Inc might delay the release of its upcoming 5G iPhone by several months because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Nikkei reported. To be frank, I don’t think such a decision has yet been made and we still have another month or two before Apple has to finalise a schedule. Apple itself declined ...

Measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 are upending every corner of economic life, bringing entire industries to a standstill across the world. What happens in the broader economy has a massive impact on the banks that oil its wheels; and financial regulators have — rightly — responded swiftly. The supervisors should ponder their next moves carefully, however. It is ...

The Covid-19 epidemic has forced the euro zone’s finance ministers to think of innovative ways to combat an inevitable recession. They met to discuss how to use the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the single-currency area’s rescue fund, to help countries fund a large-scale fiscal stimulus. Yet this debate appears largely irrelevant, at least for the moment. The European Central Bank ...

Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International, the world’s busiest airport, has turned a runway into a parking lot for grounded aircraft; about 80% of Frankfurt airport workers have had their working hours cut and many now won’t go to work at all; Manchester has closed two of its three terminals and short-hop specialist London City Airport is suspending all flights until the end ...