Bloomberg Headrest canopies and fabric barriers between seats could start appearing in airplane cabins as the embattled industry tries to ward off the coronavirus. Airlines desperate for governments to lift travel restrictions and passengers to return are looking at ways to reassure the public that their health won’t be compromised on a flight. New-look seats and fresh cabins could be …

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc is readying its first euro-bond sale since 2017, testing investor appetite for high-grade airline debt amid coronavirus travel upheavals. Europe’s biggest discount carrier will speak to investors on Monday about a potential five-year bond of at least 500 million euros ($592 million), according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named …

Bloomberg Signet Jewelers Ltd, the owner of jewellery chains Jared and Kay, gave another sign the US jewellery industry is past the worst of it, with preliminary comparable sales turning positive in August following a challenging start to the summer. Shares rose. After reporting a 31.3% decline in same-store sales in the second quarter ended on August 1, the company …

Bloomberg Australia’s central bank (RBA) will boost its bond-buying program or cut interest rates to help revive the economy from its first recession in almost 30 years, a survey showed. Seven of 11 economists predict the Reserve Bank will ramp up quantitative easing by expanding its bond purchasing program, with UBS Group AG’s George Tharenou positing that this could begin …

Bloomberg State Bank of India priced one of the riskiest bank capital securities at a record-low coupon, in the latest sign that investors are confident policy makers’ stimulus steps will help large issuers weather the pandemic. India’s biggest bank will sell 40 billion rupees ($545 million) of the so-called Additional Tier 1 bonds at a coupon of 7.74%. That’s the …

Bloomberg Danske Bank will pay out as much as $16 million to its private banking clients after failing to warn them that putting their savings into low-risk investments could cost them money. “Our review shows that approximately 900 customers were not adequately informed about the expected negative net return for the affected low-risk strategies,” Bente Nielsen, head of private banking …

Bloomberg The Malaysian ringgit has defied the odds to outperform most of its Asian peers. Now investors will be watching to see if it survives the trials of September. A three-month rally in the currency could come to a halt when FTSE Russell announces a decision on whether it’ll retain ringgit bonds in its World Government Bond Index. A lesser …

Bloomberg Singapore’s financial regulator said it will introduce measures to enhance banks’ access to local and US dollar funding to protect the city state’s financial sector against the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. From September 28, the new facility will provide banks and financial firms an additional channel to borrow Singapore dollar funds at longer tenors and will allow …

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG may have spied on other employees beyond former star banker Iqbal Khan and its ex-head of human resources, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported, citing people familiar with the matter and a probe of the bank’s activities by banking regulator Finma. The Swiss bank surveilled a former employee in the US as well as an ex-staff member …

Bloomberg European stocks dropped after President Donald Trump stoked tensions with China and virus cases across Germany and the UK continued to rise. Treasury yields fall and oil dropped to a two-month low. Technology shares led losses in the Europe Stoxx 600 Index, while the FTSE 100 Index was buoyed by the weaker pound. EasyJet Plc shares slumped after the …