Bloomberg Honeywell International Inc.’s confidence in its aerospace business was bolstered by expanding sales of in-flight internet and cockpit controls that drove first-quarter earnings higher than analysts’ expected. The company raised its 2018 profit target. A drag on earnings as recently as last year, the aerospace business is taking off on higher demand for commercial aircraft parts and service, increased …

Bloomberg The global growth outlook faces rising threats from trade tensions and mounting debt despite a strengthening and “increasingly broad-based” expansion at the moment, according to a statement from world finance ministers and central bankers. “Risks are broadly balanced in the near term, but remain skewed to the downside beyond the next several quarters,” according to a communique by IMF’s …

Bloomberg President Donald Trump may have a problem with oil prices being “very high,” but a decline would be a mixed bag for the US economy, thanks to the boom in American energy production. When prices plunged starting in mid-2014 and stayed low for the next two years, US producers felt the pain, much more and longer than was expected. …