Industrial demand is still robust, but many more yellow lights are flashing for investors than there were even just a few weeks ago. The first-quarter earnings season unofficially kicks off next week with industrial distributor Fastenal Co, whose results can often be a harbinger when its manufacturing customers report later this month. Last we heard from Fastenal, the company ...

  Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc will hold talks with JetBlue Airways Corp over its $3.6 billion cash takeover bid that’s threatening to disrupt a pending combination between Spirit and rival deep discounter Frontier Group Holdings Inc. JetBlue’s offer could lead to a superior proposal, Spirit said in a statement after assessing the bid with financial and legal advisers. JetBlue’s unsolicited ...

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG has about 10 billion euros ($11 billion) more debt because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to CEO Carsten Spohr. “That’s the price tag,” Spohr said in an interview with newspaper Schweiz am Wochenende. “It was expensive.” The German carrier hopes that its Swiss airline will pay back its pandemic-related government-backed loans by the end of the ...