Business

Kraft Heinz Co. and Jeff Bezos-backed startup NotCo are following through with their bet on plant-based foods. Eight months after announcing their joint venture (JV), the companies are unveiling their first products: animal-free cheese slices and mayonnaise. Not Cheese will first appear on shelves in a small market test in Cleveland in early November, with a national rollout to follow ...

London’s Heathrow Airport said businesses at the hub need to embark on a massive hiring spree to rebuild depleted staffing ranks that contributed to a chaotic travel season across much of Europe this past summer, even as passenger numbers will need at least until the middle of the decade to return to pre-pandemic levels. Heathrow served 81 million passengers in ...

Credit Suisse Group AG reported its fourth straight loss as its investment bank continued to struggle, wealthy clients fled and the lender booked a charge related to a critical overhaul that’s been in the making for months. The net loss of 4.03 billion Swiss francs ($4.08 billion) in the three months through September included a 3.7 billion-franc impairment of deferred ...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is building out teams that handle card transactions and other payments for businesses by recruiting staff across key Asian markets amid the boom in digital commerce. The New York-based lender has begun providing services within its merchant-acquiring unit in Australia, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and New Zealand this year, with Hong Kong planned by the ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is searching for ways to stop lenders from profiting unduly as it raises interest rates to combat record inflation. The issue concerns about €2.1 trillion ($2 trillion) of ultra-cheap loans, known as TLTROs, that were granted at the height of the pandemic to keep credit flowing and stave off deflation. While the initiative was successful, ...

BLOOMBERG The dollar sank to a five-month low, commodities gained with emerging markets, and government bonds advanced as central banks from the U.S. to Norway indicated a willingness to keep monetary policy accommodative. Developed-market stocks sank on concern that the stimulus is failing to boost growth and corporate earnings. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index fell a second day after the ...

BLOOMBERG The dollar extended its best run of gains in a month and oil rallied before the Federal Reserve’s policy review on Wednesday that may shed light on the timing of U.S. interest-rate increases. America’s currency climbed versus the yen after Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the Asian nation’s key rate could theoretically drop to minus 0.5 percent. ...

BLOOMBERG Investors are gaining confidence that March’s rally in equities and credit markets has further to run. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index and the MSCI Asia Pacific Index were on course for the highest closes in two months. Shares in Egypt extended the longest rally since December after the country’s central bank devalued its currency, and thawing credit markets enabled ...

BLOOMBERG Dubai stocks advanced the most among Middle Eastern equities as the European Central Bank’s monetary stimulus boosted demand for emerging-market assets, adding fuel to bullish sentiment in the emirate. The DFM General Index climbed 1.4 percent to 3,401.03, extending four weeks of gains, the longest streak since April. Emirates NBD PJSC, the emirate’s biggest lender, added 4.6 percent to ...

BLOOMBERG The markets asked, and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi delivered. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index surged and government bonds rose, while the euro slid as the ECB announced cuts to key interest rates and increased the scope of its bond-buying program. U.S. stock-index futures jumped. South Korea’s won rallied after policy makers refrained from lowering borrowing costs, New ...