Bloomberg The investigation into last month’s Sriwijaya Air crash in Indonesia is focusing on the carrier’s maintenance and training procedures as well as the engine-control system of the Boeing Co 737-500 jet. While Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee (NTSC) is still trying to determine the exact cause of the disaster, lead investigator Nurcahyo Utomo said at a media briefing on …

Bloomberg England’s third lockdown hit non-essential retailers harder than the previous one in November, with the new variant of the coronavirus hampering spending and confidence last month, according to the British Retail Consortium. Clothing and footwear stores fared particularly badly as retailers on the whole saw the value of sales decline from a year earlier, the business lobby said. A …

Bloomberg The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will seek to buy more than 3 trillion rupees ($41 billion) of sovereign bonds in the next fiscal year to support the government’s borrowing plans, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. That will exceed the 3 trillion rupees the RBI is expected to spend for the current year ending March. …