Bloomberg Airbus SE spent a record 8 billion euros ($8.7 billion) of cash in the first quarter as Chief Executive Officer Guillaume Faury warned of the “gravest crisis the aerospace industry has ever known.” While almost half of the cash hit came from a bribery settlement, the abrupt drop in deliveries seen in March will worsen this quarter, eating further …

Bloomberg As dividends are slashed around the world, the $42 billion in promised payouts by China’s biggest banks have a powerful defender — the Communist Party. Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. (ICBC) and its three biggest peers are returning more than 30% of their 2019 earnings to shareholders, implying an average dividend yield of more than 6%. That’s …

Bloomberg European stocks fluctuated while Asian shares gained with US equity futures as investors countdown to more big earnings, a Federal Reserve policy decision and American economic data. The dollar fell for a third day and oil advanced. Declines for healthcare and travel shares offset gains for oil companies and banks in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index. Barclays Plc jumped …