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Porsche profit soars with 911 sales driving returns

Porsche AG’s surging income failed to impress investors as concerns over headwinds in the final months of the year weighed on luxury-car maker’s shares. Operating profit jumped 41% to €5.05 billion in the first nine months from the same period last year, partly due to exchange-rate effects, the luxury-car maker said. But the company didn’t raise its full-year guidance, suggesting ...

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Global currency trading soars to $7.5 trillion a day, says BIS

Trading in the global foreign-exchange market jumped to an all-time high amid heightened volatility, according to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Average daily transactions in April increased to $7.5 trillion, up 14% from the same month in 2019, the BIS said in its triennial survey. That compares with a growth rate of 30% in 2019 and a contraction of ...

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Indian carmaker beats profit forecast as supply woes ease

Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., India’s biggest carmaker, reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit, aided by a weaker Japanese yen and easing of some supply chain constraints that boosted production recovery. Net income was 20.6 billion rupees ($250 million) for the three months ending September 30, the unit of Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp. said in a statement to exchanges, compared with a ...

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Musk takes Twitter helm after closing $44 billion deal

Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms as his $44 billion take-private deal closed. Musk, 51, is replacing Parag Agrawal, who was fired along with three other top executives. The mercurial ...

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Appliance maker Electrolux to cut 8% of 50,000 staff

A slump in demand for household appliances has prompted Swedish manufacturer Electrolux AB to scale back its North American operations in a move that affects as much as 8% of its 50,000-strong workforce. The job cuts of 3,500 to 4,000 employees form part of a cost reduction problem that was announced alongside Electrolux’s third-quarter earnings. The company, which makes cookers, ...

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China Southern cancels planned return of two Boeing 737 MAX flights

China Southern Airlines Co. cancelled two scheduled flights that would have used Boeing Co.’s 737 Max, further postponing the return of the aircraft in the country since it was grounded in March 2019. The planned flights on October 30 were to be from Guangzhou to the cities of Wuhan and Zhengzhou, according to China Southern’s website. China’s largest airline originally ...

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Cathay Pacific to restore some flights using Russian airspace

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. will restart using Russian airspace several months after Moscow’s war in Ukraine upended the aviation industry and global flight paths, becoming among earliest of major airlines to do so. Hong Kong’s main airline will fly from New York to the Asian financial hub using the so-called Polar Route from November 1, the company said in an ...

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Trump 2024 presidential bid would be very unusual

Jonathan Bernstein The Democratic presidential nomination cycle is somewhat unusual for a party with a first-term incumbent president. The Republican 2024 cycle? There has never been anything remotely like it. Of course this is all about former President Donald Trump, whose unannounced campaign has been going strong since the day he left the White House.  Trump is doing all the ...

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