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Macy’s tops earnings estimates as company shrinks footprint

  Bloomberg Macy’s Inc. posted fourth-quarter earnings that beat analysts’ estimates as the company closes stores and cuts costs in a bid to cope with an industrywide slump. Profit was $2.02 a share, excluding some items, the Cincinnati-based company said. Analysts projected $1.96 on average. While same-store sales declined 2.1 percent, that was better than the 2.2 percent drop predicted ...

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Boeing fighter jet gets new life from Trump tweets

  Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s Super Hornet is poised for a surprising comeback thanks to President Donald Trump’s Twitter broadsides and a strike-fighter shortage caused by delays to Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 program. Until recently, Boeing’s combat jet was on life support, with work at its St. Louis factory slowing to a crawl as orders dwindled. But that was before Congress ...

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Credit Suisse allocates $600mn for Saudi expansion

  Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG, the Swiss lender seeking a banking license in Saudi Arabia, allocated about $600 million of its own capital to expand its business in the kingdom, according to people familiar with the matter. The Zurich-based bank, which has a securities and equities business in the country, plans to use the capital to, among other things, ...

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