Bloomberg Already under pressure from discounters at home, major US airlines are facing a tighter squeeze abroad as low-cost rivals ramp up service across the Atlantic. At American Airlines Group Inc., a measure of trans-Atlantic fares just plunged 9.1 percent, the most since right after the recession ended in 2009, as European budget carriers such as Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA ...

Bloomberg Estee Lauder Cos., the seven-decade-old cosmetics company, is getting a payoff from its push to acquire hipper brands and expand its e-commerce business. The shares jumped as much as 8.1 percent, the most since November 2015, after the beauty company forecast annual profit that exceeded Wall Street expectations. Beyond the boost from its new brands, Estee Lauder also cited ...

Bloomberg Total SA agreed to buy the oil and gas unit of A.P. Moller-Maersk A/S, the French company’s biggest acquisition since 1999 and another sign of the accelerating pace of energy deals after a long downturn. Total will pay Maersk with $4.95 billion of its own shares and assume $2.5 billion of the Copenhagen-based company’s debt, according to a statement ...