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Amazon cuts Whole Foods prices up to 43% on first day

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick-and-mortar grocery chain cutting prices at Whole Foods Market. At the Whole Foods on 57th Street in Manhattan, organic fuji apples were marked down to $1.99 a pound from $3.49 a pound; organic avocados went to $1.99 each from $2.79; organic rotisserie chicken fell to $9.99 each from ...

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Pentagon’s No. 2 sets up alert system on his ex-employer Boeing

Bloomberg Patrick Shanahan, the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian, has set up an alert system to insulate himself from decisions affecting Boeing Co., where he rose to senior vice president during a 30-year career. The new deputy defense secretary has signed a “screening arrangement” that will notify Defense Secretary James Mattis and Shanahan’s staff to issues involving Boeing—the No. 2 US ...

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China state airlines find home turf more profitable

Bloomberg For years, China’s three state-owned airlines kept adding flights on international routes to chase after a rising middle class that can afford to fly overseas. Now, they are slowing that down in favour of the local market. In the first half of 2017, Air China Ltd., China Eastern Airlines Corp. and China Southern Airlines Co. increased international seats at ...

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