Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is poised to settle European antitrust probes over how the US ecommerce giant uses rivals’ sales data and whether it unfairly favours its own products. The European Commission is likely to accept Amazon’s binding proposals by the end of the year — that includes a commitment to stop using data on independent sellers on its marketplace for …

Bloomberg US retailers discounted heavily on Black Friday to clear out bloated inventories but customers responded with only modest traffic, leaving profitability in doubt for many chains. Crowds were thin at Connecticut’s Stamford Town Center mall, with few shoppers at Kay Jewelers and just a small line at Forever 21. A couple at a Walmart Inc supercenter near Dallas reveled …

  Bloomberg Passengers flying through London City Airport will be able to leave laptops and liquids in their bags when passing through security from next year. The hub, which is currently trialling one security lane equipped with next-generation baggage scanners, plans to introduce the machines on all its lanes by April as part of a partnership with Leidos Holdings Inc, …