Bloomberg As Britain’s retailers reported on what for most was a successful holiday season, one of the biggest and most storied of all warned that it expects a particularly difficult year ahead. Employee-owned John Lewis Partnership said that Brexit-induced inflation and a rise in online competitors are increasingly pressuring earnings. Such is its concern that the owner of John ...

  Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Janaillac delivered a downbeat assessment of the carrier’s prospects for 2017, saying it faces ‘difficult’ times in the year ahead amid rising oil prices and an ongoing struggle to rein in expenses. Weak margins combined with high debt remain the greatest challenges to Europe’s biggest airline, Janaillac said in an address ...

  Bloomberg The next frontier in digital advertising may be your car’s windshield. Automakers, technology companies and glass manufacturers are teaming up to turn the display that graces the front of an iPhone into the windshield of a car — one that can show ads, directions and vehicle information to the person behind the wheel. The advent of connected cars ...