Bloomberg The pound rose to a five-week high against a weaker dollar as investors covered short positions and UK manufacturing data beat expectations. Sterling headed for its third weekly gain against the dollar and hit $1.32, as the greenback dropped against all its Group-of-10 peers. Data showed UK manufacturing rose in July for the first time this year, while the ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. celebrated the final domestic flight for its Boeing Co. 747 jumbo fleet with an overnight party from Los Angeles to Detroit recently. The farewells were a little premature, it turns out. The carrier enlisted the iconic humpbacked jetliner to help whisk people away from Hurricane Irma, with a special round-trip flight from Detroit to Orlando, ...

Bloomberg India’s government, which is planning to sell a stake in its state-run flag carrier, is considering options such as keeping out at least a part of its $8 billion of debt to help lure investors, the nation’s civil aviation minister said. Air India Ltd.’s assets such as real estate could also be spun off into a separate company, A ...