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 …