Bloomberg Airbnb Inc. gained market share in France, the world’s most visited tourist destination, despite a string of terrorist attacks that depressed bookings at traditional hotels. The San Francisco-based company’s apartment-sharing website drew 3.6 million travelers to France in June, July and August, 86 percent more than in the same period a year ago, it said in a statement ...

  Bloomberg Africa-focused discount airline Fastjet Plc will switch to a fleet of Embraer SA regional jets from larger Airbus Group SE planes as new Chief Executive Officer Nico Bezuidenhout seeks to stem losses by better matching capacity to demand. The fledgling carrier also plans to move its headquarters to Johannesburg from London to pare expenses and bring the company ...

  Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp. will burn a mixture of biofuel and traditional jet kerosene on some flights at New York City-area airports under a 10-year purchase agreement designed to cut aircraft pollution and costs. The airline will purchase more than 33 million gallons of blended fuel annually under the contract with S.G. Preston Co., a bioenergy company based in ...

  Blagnac / AFP Airbus chief Tom Enders said he did not rule out job cuts at the European aircraft manufacturer after a media report said the group was considering slashing costs. “You never exclude anything when you’re talking about efficiency and synergy but we’re in the process of thinking it all through, how we can make our corporate structures ...

  Bloomberg Amazon is already the biggest clothing seller online. It might soon overtake most of its brick-and-mortar rivals in fashion sales, as well. There were no runway models on any Amazon catwalk at last week’s New York Fashion Week. But the e-commerce giant still loomed large in the minds of retail executives watching it elbow its way into the ...

  Bloomberg China’s shadow banking could lead to losses of $375 billion, according to CLSA Ltd. estimates of likely levels of bad debt. The brokerage estimated the potential bad debt ratio for “bank-related shadow financing” at 16.4 percent, or 4.2 trillion yuan, in a report released to the media in Hong Kong on Tuesday. Assuming a 40 percent recovery rate ...

  Bloomberg HSBC Holdings’ South-east Asia advisory head Andrew Lim is leaving the UK bank just a few months after taking charge of dealmaking in the region, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based managing director had taken over the South-east Asia role after predecessor Alvin Lim left HSBC for CVC Capital Partners earlier this year, ...

  Bloomberg Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau warned the nation’s presidential candidates that they need to meet deficit-cutting commitments or risk losing credibility with other European Union governments. “France has promised to go below 3 percent in 2017 and all our European partners are waiting or us. It’s the cornerstone of our credibility in Europe,” Villeroy de ...

  Bloomberg Trade is likely to remain weak in the coming years, according to a report by the European Central Bank. While global trade grew on average roughly twice as fast as global output prior to the financial crisis, the ratio of imports to world GDP has largely stagnated over the last five years and will probably remain at current ...

  Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG, which is trying to bolster its capital, is working to securitize billions of dollars of corporate loans to offload risk, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The bank is structuring the transaction as a synthetic collateralized loan obligation, which means the firm would keep servicing loans while transferring risk to investors, said ...