BOGOTA / AP Colombia’s flagship airline briefly grounded all flights to Caracas after a Venezuela air force plane flew close to a passenger jet, but the company said it was resuming service following clarifications from the two governments. An Avianca Boeing 787 on a flight from Madrid to Bogota with some 200 passengers aboard was cruising at high altitude ...

  Bloomberg McDonald’s Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook has more tricks up his sleeve than serving Egg McMuffins all day. A series of upgrades at the company’s international locations — including technological advances like self-service kiosks — boosted sales in some of the restaurant’s chains biggest markets abroad and helped third-quarter results beat analysts’ expectations. While the introduction of ...

  Bloomberg Bjorn Wahlroos, the chairman of Nordea Bank AB, confirmed he approached Dutch authorities about a possible merger with ABN Amro Group NV. While those talks didn’t lead to a combination of the two lenders, the Nordea chairman said a merger could have produced a “great bank,” during an interview with Finnish state broadcaster YLE. “It was in preliminary ...