Bloomberg The pound snapped a two-day rally and gilts rose after the Bank of England (BoE) signaled that a policy tightening wasn’t imminent. Sterling rose initially after the central bank said that some within its committee had become more concerned about accelerating inflation and that they were “closer to those limits” of tolerance. It reversed gains after a fuller ...

  Bloomberg Salespeople of all stripes know the drill. Go to the morning pump-up sessions. Hit the revenue targets. Move product or move along. The playbook for selling everything from phones to time shares also crops up in a rarefied environment — the Manhattan offices of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s elite wealth-management unit. There, private bankers working with JPMorgan’s richest ...

  Bloomberg The White House announced a contract for 90 F-35 jets from Lockheed Martin Corp. valued at as much as $8.2 billion, boasting of savings after President Donald Trump chided that the Pentagon’s costliest program was “out of control.” Based on the per-plane cost, the savings will be $728 million compared with the previous contract, according to a Pentagon ...