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Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin expects launch in 2023

  Bloomberg Blue Origin, the space launch vehicle startup founded by Amazon.com chair Jeff Bezos, expects next month to complete a review of a recent accident but won’t send another rocket aloft until sometime in 2023. The company’s vice president of its New Shepard rocket’s mission and fight operations, Audrey Powers, told attendees at a conference in Washington, DC, that ...

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JD reports higher quarterly sales

  Bloomberg JD.com Inc. reported higher sales last quarter after shoppers kept spending at China’s second-largest online retailer despite an economic downturn. Sales rose 11% from a year earlier to $34.2 billion in the quarter ending in September, the company said in a statement. That compared to the average forecast of 243.1 billion yuan from analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. The ...

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UK debt binge threatens to haunt its bond market

  Bloomberg Investors are slowly coming to terms with the sheer size of the UK government’s borrowing needs over the next few years and it doesn’t look pretty. Net gilt supply in the next fiscal year is likely headed for an all-time record, according to bank estimates. For Citigroup Inc. strategists, the increase means the market needs to find twice ...

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