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Rolls-Royce aims to resolve its costliest jet-engine issue

Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc is increasingly optimistic that it can move beyond the jet-engine issues that have cost it billions of pounds and provided an unwelcome distraction during years of restructuring work. Final fixes to a litany of glitches that plagued the Trent 1000 turbine powering Boeing Co’s 787 Dreamliner should be made this year, engineering and technology director Simon ...

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Fortress to buy Wm Morrison for $8.7b

Bloomberg Fortress Investment Group agreed to buy Wm Morrison Supermarket Plc for about 6.3 billion pounds ($8.7 billion), trumping an earlier bid from Clayton Dubilier & Rice. The all-cash agreement by a group led by Fortress, a SoftBank Group Corp subsidiary, follows the UK supermarket chain’s rejection of CD&R’s 5.5 billion-pound offer last month. It’s the latest in a flurry ...

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Lion Air struggling to pay to lessors on some of its planes

Bloomberg PT Lion Mentari Airlines is struggling to make payments to lessors on some of its planes, according to people familiar with the matter, as the pandemic tips it ever closer to financial peril. Indonesia’s largest discount carrier has grounded some 25 aircraft because it hasn’t paid lessors that are owed at least $500 million, one of the people said, ...

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