Bloomberg Saudi Arabia’s equities index extended a winning streak to five sessions on Sunday, following another positive week for crude prices. The Tadawul All Share Index climbed 0.9%, with gauges in Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Israel also rising. The index in Dubai finished little changed while and Egypt’s EGX 30 declined 0.9%. Oil, the main export for Gulf countries, …

Bloomberg Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd, the developer of electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, won pre-order contracts of as much as $4 billion as it plans to go public through a merger with a blank-check company. American Airlines Group Inc, Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd and aircraft lessor Avolon Holdings Ltd agreed to buy as many as 1,000 of the vertical …

Bloomberg Daily US air travellers exceeded 2 million for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, reaching almost three-quarters of the volume recorded on the same day in 2019, according to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). The total is part of a trend towards improving numbers since February, when vaccinations against the virus began to have an appreciable effect …