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London’s Gatwick to cut flights in summer over staffing woes

Bloomberg London Gatwick airport said it will scrap hundreds of flights over the peak summer travel period, hours after Amsterdam’s Schiphol hub took a similar step, as the aviation industry’s staffing crisis deepened. Gatwick, Britain’s second-busiest airport, will limit airlines to 825 flights a day in July and 850 a day in August, from a pre-pandemic peak of around 950 ...

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Tesco UK sales drop as cost of living weighs on shoppers

Bloomberg Tesco Plc said shoppers are buying fewer items and trading down to cheaper own-brand versions of staples in an “incredibly challenging” market hit by the worst inflation in 40 years. Britain’s biggest supermarket chain reported a greater-than-expected 1.5% decline in comparable UK sales in the first quarter, in fresh evidence of how rising prices are changing shopping behaviour. “Inflation ...

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Inflation is pushing shoppers to cheaper store brands: Kroger

  Bloomberg Kroger Co said grocery shoppers are “aggressively” turning to cheaper store brands as they wrestle with the highest inflation in four decades. Same-store sales for Kroger-branded products rose 6.3% in the first quarter, faster than the overall sales growth, the company said Thursday on its earnings call. Customers who are facing higher prices everywhere from the gas pump ...

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Amsterdam Airport to limit its capacity

  Bloomberg Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport will limit capacity this summer as long lines caused by a shortage of security staff are expected to persist through the busy holiday months. Hub operator Royal Schiphol Group NV said the maximum number of passengers it’s able to handle will vary, reaching 67,500 on the busiest days in July and 72,500 in August, with ...

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Stock markets get crushed as recession worries mount

  Bloomberg Stocks tumbled around the globe as recession fears resurfaced, with the Federal Reserve struggling to get on top of inflation that has proved more persistent and widespread than officials anticipated. The S&P 500 closed at its lowest since December 2020, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 sinks 4%. The deal spread on Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of Twitter Inc. ...

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Crypto selloff resumes as post-Fed mood in global markets sours

  Bloomberg The selloff in the digital-asset space accelerated, with losses in US equities also snowballing, a day after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by the most in decades. Ether, down as much as 8.3% to trade around $1,080, is facing a tougher road than most. The native token for the Ethereum blockchain is on pace to decline for ...

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Russia’s oil revenue jumps to $20 billion in May, says IEA

  Bloomberg Russia’s oil-export revenues surged to around $20 billion in May despite shipping lower volumes, as a rally in global energy prices buoyed its coffers, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). That’s a 11% increase from a month earlier, taking Russia’s total revenue for shipping crude and oil products roughly back to levels before the invasion of Ukraine, ...

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TotalEnergies establishes Gabon forestry carbon offsets venture

  Bloomberg TotalEnergies acquired 49% of Gabonese logging firm Compagnie des Bois du Gabon, the French oil major’s first foray into Gabon’s forestry sector. TotalEnergies, which has been pumping oil in the central African country for more than 80 years and is its leading fuel retailer, said it is joining forces with CBG to develop a new forest management model ...

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Boeing mulls 787 jet over tough air pollution rules

  Bloomberg Boeing Co hinted that it’s considering a cargo-hauling version of its 787 Dreamliner to eventually replace 767 freighters, whose engines won’t comply with tougher emissions standards that take effect in 2028. “That’s a natural place for us to look,” Brian Hermesmeyer, freighter customer leader for Boeing’s commercial airplane division, told reporters in a briefing near its plant in ...

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