Bloomberg Investment bankers at Europe’s biggest securities firms are watching their bonuses melt. A rout in financial stocks this year has wiped more than $2.5 billion from the value of deferred shares that were paid as bonuses in the past few years at Barclays Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank AG and UBS Group AG, data compiled by …

  Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG and Air China Ltd. plan to finalize a joint venture this month, sealing a deal to share revenue and coordinate routes after more than two years of negotiations, people familiar with the plan said. Lufthansa Chief Executive Officer Carsten Spohr will travel to Beijing to attend a signing ceremony scheduled for Sept. 20, said the …

  Bloomberg Qatar Airways said it’s poised to make a major jetliner purchase, adding to a backlog of more than 340 outstanding orders for Boeing Co. and Airbus Group SE planes. The Gulf carrier will place a “large” aircraft order “soon,” Chief Executive Officer Akbar Al Baker said at a briefing in Doha, without elaborating on the number or class …