Bloomberg Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is losing its most powerful Black women, according to new data the firm released in a report on its website. The bank had 19 Black women among its executives and senior officials as of November 2021, the bank said, down from 25 a year earlier, while the 24 Black men in that top rank …

  Bloomberg Some of the world’s biggest banks haven’t moved enough senior staff into the European Union (EU) after Brexit, the bloc’s top regulator has concluded, an assessment that will likely lead to renewed pressure for more job moves to the EU. An exercise by the European Central Bank (ECB), known as “desk mapping,” found that several of the lenders reviewed …

  Bloomberg European stocks extended declines as a sharp selloff in US equities fuelled concerns of an economic slowdown and further dented demand for risk assets. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index was down 2% as of 10:01 am in London after the S&P 500 posted its biggest drop in almost two years. Personal care stocks were the biggest decliners, followed …

  Bloomberg US stock investors are pricing in stronger odds of a recession than are evident from positive macroeconomic indicators, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc strategists. “A recession is not inevitable,” Goldman strategists led by David Kostin wrote in a note. “Rotations within the US equity market indicate that investors are pricing elevated odds of a downturn compared with …

  Bloomberg Uniper SE plans to keep importing natural gas from Russia for another decade, even as Europe seeks to cuts its energy dependency on the country. The German utility — one of the continent’s largest buyers of Russian gas — has contracts with Gazprom PJSC that will expire in the middle of 2030s, CEO Klaus-Dieter Maubach said at Uniper’s …

  Bloomberg Sri Lanka’s new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe wants to sell the national airline, saying the country’s poorest people who’ve never flown shouldn’t be saddled with its losses. Finding a buyer might not be easy. SriLankan Airlines Ltd, which prior to the pandemic serviced 126 destinations in more than 60 countries, lost $125 million in the year through March …

  Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp is working with consultants to set targets for a new round of cost cuts, even as it prepares to meet surging consumer demand for travel. The airline expects to see “progressive improvement” in its cost performance throughout the rest of this year, following an operational meltdown in April that led to hundreds of flight cancellations …

  Bloomberg A new Australian airline backed by US investment firm 777 Partners pushed back its launch toward year-end, reflecting the difficulties of starting from scratch during Covid-19 and the global supply-chain crunch. Bonza’s first flights will be in the third or fourth quarter of 2022, as much as six months later than originally planned. Nailing down agreements with domestic …

Bloomberg More people are flying in more expensive cabins for leisure trips despite airfares rising on surging oil prices and demand, and that’s helped offset a slower recovery in business travel, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). reporters in Singapore. “Consumers had disposable income during the two years of the pandemic. People have saved and therefore they are …

  Bloomberg The black box for a China Eastern Airlines Corp jet that crashed earlier this year suggests the Boeing Co plane took an intentional nosedive, the Wall Street Journal said. Data recovered from the black box suggest that someone in the cockpit input controls that sent the plane into its deadly descent, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with …