Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co. and American Airlines Group Inc. have cancelled more than 1,500 flights early this week as a winter storm brings freezing temperatures, sleet and possible ice accumulation to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Southwest, which accounts for nearly all the flights at Dallas Love Field, grounded 483 on January 31 and pre-cancelled 309 on Tuesday, according to …

  Bloomberg Swiss retail sales fell in December from a year earlier as winter gloom and inflation concerns weighed on consumers. The 2.8% drop — following contractions in October and November — was the first such decline in that month since 2016, suggesting weak household spending at a time of year that typically is among the best for retailers. The …

  Bloomberg The European Union (EU) unveiled a roadmap for how it plans to keep its industries competitive as the bloc tries to catch up to the US and China, which offer huge subsidies to domestic green technologies. The European Commission wants to use its Green Deal Industrial Plan to boost national support for companies through investment aid and tax …