Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc reported an 8 percent drop in third-quarter earnings and said it’s “cautious” about meeting full-year targets as a capacity glut and stuttering economies cause fares to tumble. Profit after tax fell to 95 million euros ($102 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31 from 103 million euros a year earlier, Dublin-based Ryanair said in …

  DUBAI / Reuters After years of delays, China’s first large homemade passenger jetliner will take to the air for its maiden flight in the first half of this year, state media reported on Monday. State-owned aircraft maker Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., or Comac, based in Shanghai, has nearly completed work on the 175-passenger C919, the ruling Communist …

  Bloomberg Sharp Corp. rose the most in two weeks after the company narrowed its full-year loss outlook and posted its first quarterly profit in more than two years. The shares climbed as much as 4.5 percent to 327 yen in Tokyo on Monday, the biggest intraday jump since Jan. 23. The net loss will reach 37.2 billion yen ($330 …