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Currency traders are betting against Trump

With pollsters predicting that Donald Trump will soon be out of the picture, global investors can finally breathe a big sigh of relief. Foreign policy could become more predictable, so they can start buying Chinese government bonds, which actually pay interest. They can also invest in the mainland, where a successful Covid-19 containment strategy has allowed businesses to resume. Money ...

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Amazon’s Prime Day steals rivals’ Black Friday spotlight

Bloomberg Amazon.com’s two-day Prime Day sale kicked off on Tuesday, which is expected to give the world’s largest e-commerce company an early advantage over brick-and-mortar rivals still contending with pandemic-spooked consumers wary of battling Black Friday crowds. With Prime Day delayed to October from July this year, Amazon single-handedly could yank the pivotal holiday season forward — a long-predicted “Christmas ...

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Apollo’s Sun Country Air to revive IPO plans

Bloomberg Apollo Global Management Inc’s Sun Country Airlines is planning to restart its push for an initial public offering as soon as next year if travel demand picks up across the industry, said the carrier’s top executive. Sun Country’s core business of taking Midwest leisure travellers to Florida, Las Vegas and other warm-weather destinations has already recovered enough to turn ...

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