Bloomberg Asia’s biggest aircraft lessor is seeking to raise $1.1 billion to fund an expansion as the region is poised to become the world’s top air travel market in about two decades. BOC Aviation Ltd., the Singapore-based company that has more than 100 planes leased out to airlines around the world, will sell new and existing shares at HK$42 …

  New York / AFP The dollar jumped this week after a better-than-expected rebound in US retail sales last month erased some doubts about the strength of the US economy. But the yen also gained, shrugging off more efforts by Tokyo to talk it down from recent highs. The greenback was up 0.6 percent on the euro and the pound, and …

  Honolulu / AP Hawaiian Airlines secured the right to begin flying nonstop between Tokyo and Kailua-Kona, bringing a regularly scheduled direct flight from Japan to the Big Island for the first time since 2010. The news came as the US Department of Transportation said it awarded a new nighttime departure slot at Tokyo’s Haneda International Airport to Hawaiian. Hawaiian plans …