Bloomberg L Catterton, the private equity firm backed by luxury French fashion house LVMH, agreed to buy a 60% stake in Italian fashion company Etro SpA, Sole 24 Ore reported on its website, without citing anyone. The deal values Etro at about 500 million euros ($590 million), the newspaper reported. Etro, which had hired Rothschild as an adviser, had been …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc was sued by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC ), which is seeking an order determining that the largest online retailer is legally responsible for defective products sold in its sprawling third-party marketplace. The complaint filed says Amazon sold children’s sleepwear that failed to meet federal standards for flammability; some 24,000 carbon monoxide detectors that failed …

Bloomberg Asian air travel may take another three years to recover fully from the devastation wrought by the pandemic, lagging behind rebounds in other regions and offering a stern headwind for refiners making jet fuel. It’ll take until 2024 for international air travel across the region to reach pre-virus levels, a year after global traffic hits that milestone, according to …