Bloomberg The number of people visiting London’s major shopping district was down by almost a fifth on the last weekend before Christmas compared with pre-pandemic levels, a further sign of the toll the spread of the omicron variant is taking on beleaguered UK stores. Footfall in the West End was 17% lower than the equivalent period in 2019, and …

  Bloomberg Future Retail Ltd’s shares and dollar bonds jumped after an order by India’s antitrust body may make it harder for Amazon.com Inc to block a bid for the Indian department store chain by rival Reliance Industries Ltd. Future’s shares rose by the maximum permissible 20% to 57.5 rupees in Mumbai on Monday, the biggest surge since August last …

  Bloomberg British Airways (BA) put flights to Hong Kong on hold until March after the imposition of strict quarantine rules by the Asian financial hub’s government saw airline crews forced to isolate in a makeshift camp. The London-based carrier’s schedule shows no services to Hong Kong until the end of February. British Airways initially suspended flights there late last …