The Ulf-man cometh. And it’s all rather underwhelming. Ulf Mark Schneider, the new chief executive of Nestle SA, has laid out what is ultimately a more sensible course for the world’s largest food company. As expected, he’s ditched the strict adherence to an organic sales-growth target of 5 to 6 percent. This year, it’ll be more like 2 to …

  When UK voters decided last June to leave the European Union, global investors anticipating the opposite result wiped out billions of pounds in the currency market. Sterling plummeted a record 8.05 percent to a 31-year low. It’s been seven months since those British voters narrowly rejected the view of prime ministers, presidents, finance ministers, business leaders and economists that …

  Bloomberg Air Canada dropped the most in seven months after the country’s largest airline said rising fuel costs would cause a key profit measure to fall by half in the first quarter. The forecast implies earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and aircraft rent of C$250 million ($190 million) in the first quarter, trailing the C$366 million estimated by Fadi …