Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc’s effort to get packages from warehouse to doorstep in a single day helped push the retail giant to its first year-over-year quarterly profit decline since early 2017. The spending binge isn’t over. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said that the costs of the company’s one-day delivery push will total some $1.5 billion during the holiday quarter. …

Bloomberg United Airlines and Apple Inc are in early discussions about upgrading United’s terminal at San Francisco (SFO) International airport. The talks between the companies have just begun and the specific upgrades that would come to the SFO airport terminal are unclear. “The Apple team in San Francisco has been in our baggage hold areas, customer service and the lobbies,” …

Bloomberg China said parts of the text for the first phase of a trade deal with the US are “basically completed” as the two sides reached a consensus in areas including standards used by agricultural regulators. The Saturday comments followed a call with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. The trade …