Bloomberg An aircraft landing scare in Paris earlier this month most likely resulted from the Air France pilots submitting contradictory commands, rather than any malfunction of the plane, according France’s air-safety investigator. No failure warnings were activated and no anomaly was observed with the Boeing Co 777 in the incident, the Bureau d’Enquetes et d’Analyses said. Flight AF011 from ...

  Bloomberg Unilever Plc is increasing the pressure on consumers worldwide with higher prices for Dove soap, raising the risk that shoppers may start to balk at spending more. All company reported sales growth at about double the pace analysts had expected. Unilever forecast full-year revenue growth at the top end of its forecast, though warned that profitability may suffer ...

Bloomberg Germany’s parliament urged the government to quickly supply Ukraine with heavy weapons and other equipment to help its defense against Russia. The three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition and the largest opposition group — which combined hold over 80% of the seats in the lower house of parliament — teamed up to support a motion in a show ...

  Bloomberg China denied reports that it plans to build a naval base in the Solomon Islands, with a Defense Ministry spokesman calling them “fake news.” Australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison said a Chinese military base in the Solomon Islands would be a “red line” for his government, after Beijing signed a security pact with the government in Honiara. The ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration is weighing the political costs of replacing India’s religion-based marriage and inheritance laws with a uniform civil code ahead of national elections in 2024, according to people involved in the plan, a move that risks alienating a broad spectrum of voters. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has begun the process to implement uniform civil ...

Bloomberg North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears to have lowered his threshold for a nuclear strike, raising the risks for a miscalculation as he rolls out new weapons whose uses range from nearby tactical strikes to threatening the US homeland from afar. Kim signalled a looser policy towards his possible use of atomic weapons at a military parade in Pyongyang ...

  Bloomberg A bipartisan group of senators was expected to meet to discuss options for passing immigration legislation this year. “The idea is to get as many bipartisan bills we can find that have goals that will add up to 60,” Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said, referring to the Senate’s threshold for passing most legislation. Sens John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG raised the outlook for its investment bank after fixed-income traders outperformed Wall Street peers for a seventh straight quarter, boosting Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing in the final year of his turnaround plan. Revenue from buying and selling fixed-income securities rise 15% from a year earlier, beating the biggest US investment banks, where the business ...

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group reported a bigger-than-expected loss, parted ways with three senior executives and warned that the full damage from one of the most turbulent periods in its history is yet to be accounted for. The Zurich-based bank posted a net loss of 273 million Swiss francs ($284 million), in the first quarter driven by 703 million francs in ...

  Bloomberg Standard Chartered (StanChart) Plc shares surged after it beat estimates in the first quarter and the lender said revenue would climb more this year than the previously predicted. Underlying pretax profit posted a surprise 4% rise to $1.5 billion in the period on a jump from its trading business, the London-based bank said in a statement on Thursday. Revenue ...