Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Europe’s third-biggest discount airline, is attracting more passengers than long-time market leader Ryanair Holdings Plc as it races to restart flights following the easing of coronavirus lockdowns. Chief Executive Officer Jozsef Varadi has been building up operations faster than rivals, helped by Wizz’s focus on Eastern Europe, where the pandemic has had less of an …

Bloomberg European stocks rose with US futures on Thursday as hopes for reassuring jobs data later in Washington added to momentum from positive vaccine developments. The dollar slipped. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index extended its initial gains on advances in banks and travel companies. Contracts on the S&P 500 Index also picked up, hours before the June employment report that’s …

Bloomberg SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., a biotechnology arm of SK Group in South Korea, surged to more than double the company’s initially offered price during its trading debut in the nation’s largest first share sale in three years. The stock soared 159% from the IPO price in Seoul, boosting its market cap to 9.9 trillion won ($8.2 billion). SK Biopharmaceuticals now …