Bloomberg Gadget junkies soon won’t need an appointment to shop at Best Buy Co anymore. Starting from June 15, the nation’s biggest consumer-electronics retailer will allow a limited number of shoppers inside most of its stores, moving past an appointment-only model that it had instituted in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The retailer will bring back about 9,000 employees …

Bloomberg Stocks in Europe advanced along with US equity-index futures after a mixed session in Asia Wednesday as investors awaited the Federal Reserve’s next move on monetary policy. The dollar headed for a three-month low against a basket of peers. Financial services and retailers led a broad advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 index. S&P 500 futures rose after the …

Bloomberg Amid all the doubt surrounding Hong Kong’s future as a global financial hub, one thing is certain: the city’s stock market is an enticing target for the wave of cash that’s returning to the world’s equities. Rarely has the valuation case for the city’s shares been this compelling. Investors price the world’s fourth-largest bourse like a frontier market, with …

ABU DHABI / AGENCIES Masdar has signed an agreement with the Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan and JSC National Electric Grid of Uzbekistan to design, finance, build and operate a 500-megawatt utility-scale wind farm project. The Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and Investment Agreement was signed during a virtual ceremony by Sardor Umurzakov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister …

Bloomberg Oil traded near $38 a barrel in New York in choppy trading, as the market was caught between weaker equities and an ongoing market rebalancing. Futures whipsawed between gains and losses. While stock markets retreated and Saudi Arabia decided to end additional supply curbs this month, there are signs of a broader rebalancing. US crude inventories are forecast to …

Bloomberg France unveiled an aerospace rescue plan to bolster European planemaker Airbus SE and its financially-strapped suppliers with measures aimed at preventing massive job losses and underpinning aircraft orders. The sweeping aid package laid out on Tuesday by Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire, worth about 15 billion euros ($17 billion), provides investment, payroll subsidies and credit guarantees to cushion the …

Bloomberg Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd became the latest global carrier to seek a lifeline in the aftermath of Covid-19 travel restrictions, outlining a plan to raise HK$39 billion ($5 billion) from the Hong Kong government and shareholders after months of warnings about the frailty of its business. The rights issue proposal, reported by Bloomberg News, is on the basis of …

Bloomberg The French government unveiled a rescue plan for the struggling aerospace industry that includes billions of euros to support Airbus SE and its suppliers hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. The measures, worth 15 billion euros ($17 billion), include export guarantees and credit relief for some new aircraft orders, as well as an extension of part-time work subsidies to …

Bloomberg Deutsche Lufthansa AG’s historic state bailout increased by 450 million euros ($508 million) after Austria agreed to provide support to the German carrier’s division in the country. Austrian Airlines will get 150 million euros in direct aid plus 300 million euros in loans underwritten by the government, helping to sustain the unit as carriers begin to restore flights amid …

Bloomberg A few weeks after Spain declared a nationwide lockdown in mid-March to fight the growing coronavirus outbreak, clothing retailer Inditex SA began running low on goods. The world’s largest fashion retailer typically operates a lean warehouse operation, preferring instead to hold the majority of its stock in stores that double as e-commerce fulfillment centres. That way, turnaround is faster, …