The biggest story in Japan was about a man who mistakenly received an entire town’s $360,000 allotment of Covid stimulus money — and chose to gamble it all at an online casino rather than invest. That’s at the heart of an issue once again on the national agenda: Getting the Japanese to put their substantial amount of spare cash into ...

  To soaring prices, plummeting stocks and disrupted supply chains, add another worry for American consumers: an alarming shortage of baby formula. Beyond the current panic, the crisis is an object lesson in how decades of protectionism can culminate in disaster. Reports of empty shelves, rationed supplies, online scams and anxious parents have proliferated in recent weeks. An analysis by ...

  The UK cost-of-living crisis is becoming increasingly apparent to people, in the growing gap between the wages they earn and what they spend on groceries and fuel bills. But it is also squeezing the most vulnerable in another less visible but no less fundamental part of life — rent. Happily, there are signs both renters and landlords are finding ...

  Bloomberg Spirit Airlines Inc rebuffed a hostile $3.3 billion takeover offer from JetBlue Airways Corp, setting the stage for a potentially contentious vote by shareholders on whether to back the bid or go with a competing proposal from Frontier Group Holdings Inc. Spirit said its board unanimously determined the JetBlue offer is not in the best interests of the ...

  Bloomberg Go First, India’s No. 2 airline, is planning to raise 36 billion rupees ($464 million) through an initial public offering in July as air travel recovers from the pandemic, according to a person familiar with the matter. Go First’s share sale comes as air travel is rebounding in the South Asian nation driven by pent-up demand as people ...

  Bloomberg China Eastern Airlines outlined several actions it needs to undertake before operating Boeing Co’s 737 Max again, including modifications to the aircraft and further pilot training, damping hopes the narrowbody will return to Chinese skies any time soon. Li Yangmin, vice chairman of the Shanghai-based state-owned carrier, indicated to investors at a virtual briefing that the airline is ...

Bloomberg India is investigating three separate incidents in the past two months where airline pilots had to shut down plane engines mid-flight made by a joint venture of General Electric Co, according to people familiar with the matter. The so-called commanded in-flight shutdowns — when pilots intentionally turn off one of the two engines after encountering problems — may have ...

  Bloomberg Such is the state of the UK consumer that even seemingly positive data can reveal bad news about the economy. After a week of grim reports showing inflation at a four-decade high and consumer confidence at the lowest level since at least 1974, a release showing retail sales unexpectedly rose in April appeared to buck the trend. The ...

Bloomberg Joe Biden talked at length as a presidential candidate about the need to focus on China’s rising global power. Yet 17 months after taking office, Asian leaders are still waiting for details on a strategy for more US economic engagement in the region. Before Biden touched down in South Korea, many officials in the region have struggled to understand ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s six-week election campaign has entered its final days with polling showing a narrow victory likely for the center-left opposition Labor Party, but an unexpected result in 2019 is still hanging over both sides ahead of voting on Saturday. PM Scott Morrison and Opposition leader Anthony Albanese are rushing to visit must-win seats across the country, with Morrison ...