Bloomberg London’s Heathrow airport aims to boost capacity even before a new runway opens, employing measures including a rejigging of the way two existing landing strips are used to add 25,000 aircraft movements a year at Europe’s busiest hub. The project, revealed on Tuesday as part of a consultation process on the 16 billion-pound ($20 billion) third runway, may stir ...

Bloomberg Sears Holdings Corp is preparing for the potential that this year will be its last. The storied retailer started laying the groundwork for a liquidation after Chairman Eddie Lampert’s bid to buy several hundred stores out of bankruptcy fell short of bankers’ qualifications, people with knowledge of the matter said. Sears representatives summoned liquidation firms and other advisers to ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc surpassed Microsoft Corp to become the world’s largest public company on Monday, in the latest example of the list of Wall Street’s biggest names being reordered. Shares of the e-commerce company rose 3.4 percent, a rally that gave it a market capitalisation of $797 billion, according to Bloomberg data. While this is down from Amazon’s record market ...