Bloomberg Luxury fashion startup Farfetch is meeting advisers about an initial public offering in New York as early as the end of next year, according to people familiar with the matter. Farfetch will appoint advisers in the coming months, the people said, asking not to be named as the details aren’t public. No final decisions have been made, and …

  Bloomberg Britain’s retailers received a much-needed boost last month as sales grew for the first time since January. Same-store sales rose 0.7 percent compared with October last year, business advisory firm BDO LLP said in its monthly report. Sales of home furnishings led the rebound, growing 11.6 percent. The growth is welcome news for retailers, many of whom have …

  Bloomberg An engine on an American Airlines plane that exploded on a Chicago runway October 28, triggering a massive blaze, had an apparent manufacturing defect, US investigators said. A disk within the General Electric Co. CF6-80 engine had an “internal inclusion,” meaning some type of foreign debris was embedded within the special alloy designed to withstand the heat and …