Bloomberg Airbus SE was close to delivering 560 planes to customers as of December 31, approaching the top end of its internal target in a year marred by the pandemic-induced collapse of air travel, according to people familiar with the matter. The European planemaker delivered close to 550 aircraft as of December 29, Bloomberg reported earlier. The final audited tally …

Bloomberg 2020 was a year the entire world changed, but one thing held steady in an elite corner of Wall Street: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. ended up on top. Goldman was the world’s top adviser on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for the fourth consecutive year in 2020, and was the only bank with more than 30% of market share, according to …

Bloomberg Switzerland’s central bank spent 11 billion francs ($12.5 billion) on interventions in the third quarter, adding to an already-high tally that got the country labelled a currency manipulator by the US. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) acquired foreign currencies worth more than 100 billion francs win the first nine months of the year — the biggest sum since 2012 …