Adjustable-rate mortgages, or ARMs, have a bad reputation with homebuyers who have long viewed them as a dangerous financial trap. But with rates on fixed-rate mortgages more than doubling in the past year, some borrowers are taking a second look. The idea of paying less now in exchange for the risk of paying more later seems reasonable if you ...

  The UK takeover regime isn’t kind to private equity buyers. It got even tougher after Kraft Foods Inc.’s bitter acquisition of rival confectioner Cadbury in 2010. But are its rules too restrictive? If the leveraged finance market bounces back, UK stocks should be a prime hunting ground for the private equity industry. Yet local M&A rules are often seen ...

  Russia’s efforts to use natural-gas exports as a geopolitical weapon present Europe with a challenge: When faced with such a clear and present threat, can it muster the solidarity required of a true union? Policymakers might be coalescing around what they see as an adequate plan. They should be more ambitious: Europe needs a permanent solution to its chronic ...

  Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc shareholders approved the carrier’s $3.8 billion cash sale to JetBlue Airways Corp, a milestone for a deal that’s poised to eliminate the largest US carrier offering deeply discounted fares. More than half of outstanding shares were voted in favour of the combination, according to preliminary results disclosed by the companies. JetBlue and Spirit still expect ...

Bloomberg Walmart Inc is starting a platform for social media influencers — a bid to get help from online content creators to sell everything from food to apparel. The program, called Walmart Creator and accessible via an internet browser, is designed to make it easier for influencers to recommend company products, the retailer announced in a statement. Influencers will have ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said the discount carrier’s ability to gain market share from rivals in a looming economic slowdown is at risk from delays to Boeing Co. jetliner deliveries. O’Leary said he’s concerned the US planemaker may ship only 12 or 13 of the 21 Max aircraft that Ryanair is due to get ...

  Bloomberg The aviation sector’s burning of fossil fuels isn’t the only way it contributes to climate change: Contrails, the white clouds that trail behind airplanes, are known by researchers to trap heat from the Earth’s surface in the atmosphere. They are formed when water vapour from engine exhaust mixes with cold air, and their environmental impact is significant. Delta ...

  Bloomberg Uber Technologies will offer consumers delivery within minutes on orders from frozen-grocery chain Iceland Foods, in its first “quick commerce” partnership in the UK. Customers on the Uber Eats mobile app will be able to order more than 1,000 items from Iceland via the new initiative, known as Uber Eats Market, the company said. The move marks Uber’s ...

  Bloomberg Albertsons Cos. reported a quarterly profit that topped Wall Street’s estimates, underscoring the steady demand that makes the grocer an attractive takeover target for Kroger Co. Earnings excluding some items rise to 72 cents a share in the fiscal second quarter, Albertsons said in a statement. That surpassed the 64-cent average of analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. Sales ...

Bloomberg Liz Truss quit as UK prime minister after a brief and chaotic tenure that saw her announce a massive package of tax cuts before unwinding most of it in the face of a market rout. Truss, 47, said she was resigning after just 44 days in office, and is set to become the shortest-ruling prime minister in British history. ...