Bloomberg South African shoppers with limited spending money are turning to low-cost supermarket chains such as Shoprite Holdings Ltd. for cheaper food and eschewing new clothes to counter accelerating inflation. Africa’s biggest food retailer reported 7.4 percent half-year sales growth at South African stores that have been open for more than a year, equal to how much the company …

  Bloomberg United Continental Holdings Inc.’s fourth-quarter profit exceeded expectations as a rebound in pricing power took hold across the airline industry. Earnings excluding certain items were $1.78 a share, compared with the average analysts’ estimate of $1.75 a share. Revenue rose less than 1 percent to $9.05 billion, the Chicago-based airline said in a statement. Analysts had predicted $9.06 …

  Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd. deepened its commitment to two-stop flights after deploying the world’s newest wide-body jet on services that call in at Manchester, northern England, en route to Houston, Texas. The Asian carrier this week upgraded the flight, which it operates under so-called fifth-freedom rights, to Airbus Group SE’s A350-900 jet, of which it has only 10 in …