Bloomberg Asia’s largest retailer Fast Retailing Co sees profits growing slightly beyond analysts’ expectations this fiscal year, driven by a robust recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic in the Uniqlo owner’s key China and Japan markets. Operating profit will probably be 245 billion yen ($2.3 billion) for the year through August 2021, the Japanese company said in a statement. That compares ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government is adding more commercial flights from the UK, India and South Africa and boosting quarantine places so that more Australians stranded overseas by the pandemic can return home. Morrison said Qantas Airways Ltd will provide eight flights over coming weeks from London, New Delhi and Johannesburg. Australia’s capacity to let citizens and permanent residents ...

Bloomberg Nancy Pelosi remains hopeful a deal on a new stimulus bill can be reached before the November 3 election, but said that Monday is a deadline for more progress in talks with the White House to make that happen. “Are we going with it, or not? And what is the language?” the House Speaker said on ABC’s “This Week ...