Bloomberg Bank of America (BofA) is recruiting to potentially double the size of its specialist sales staff in the US and Europe, according to two people familiar with the efforts. The bank is looking to add four to six positions — which help clients act on the firm’s research ideas — in addition to the six specialist salespeople it already …

Bloomberg People charged with running or monitoring the world economy are set for a busy week before those in the Northern Hemisphere get to enjoy their summer vacations. Central bankers in the US, Japan, the UK, Brazil and India all meet to set their respective monetary policies at a time when Eric Oynoyan, senior European interest-rate strategist at BNP Paribas …

Bloomberg VietJet Aviation JSC, the Vietnamese carrier that handed Boeing Co. a $12.7 billion aircraft order this month, said second-quarter profit jumped after more people flew its international flights. Second-quarter pretax profit rose 44 percent from a year earlier to $41 million, said Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, VietJet’s founder and chief executive officer. Revenue gained 52 percent to 8.6 trillion …