While leveraged buyouts struggle, one corner of private equity just keeps on going — the pursuit of infrastructure assets such as airports, gas pipelines and broadband networks. Combine strong demand for these inflation-proof businesses with rising borrowing costs, and the risk of overpaying for deals is rising. The Italian billionaire Benetton family and Blackstone Inc clinched an agreement to ...

  In recent months, the Federal Reserve has taken a lot of heat from asset managers for letting inflation run out of control and now risking a recession with rapid rate hikes. The chorus of complaints revolves around its perception in the marketplace. “If the Fed doesn’t do its job, the market will,” wrote Bill Ackman, founder of Pershing Square ...

Bloomberg London Heathrow is imposing a two-month cap on daily passenger traffic to contain flight chaos, a dramatic response by the UK’s busiest airport to address the struggle with surging demand for travel. The airport will limit daily passenger traffic to 100,000 departing people through September 11, asking carriers to refrain from selling summer tickets. Current forecasts are modeling for ...