Bloomberg Nordea Bank AB’s Swedish mortgage loan book continued to shrink in November after the biggest Nordic lender saw the first decline in at least 15 years the previous month. The mortgage book fell to 443.5 billion kronor ($54 billion) in November from 444.7 billion kronor in October, according to Statistics Sweden data. The decline acceler- ated to more than …

Bloomberg Airbus SE completed the year gone by doing what it does best: selling its bread-and-butter narrow-body aircraft. The European manufacturer firmed up its biggest-ever order from Indigo Partners for 430 A320 aircraft—a contract that was previously announced— while also unveiling a new deal for 50 re-engined versions of the same jet. All told, the flurry of activity during the …

Bloomberg Many Britons seem to have tightened their belts this festive season in an early sign that retailers won’t have received much of a boost from the holidays. Forty-seven percent of consumers said they spent less on Christmas in 2017 than last, according to a survey by Retail Economics. A quarter said they wouldn’t shop in after-Christmas sales because they …