Bloomberg Qantas Airways said Boeing has offered a stopgap deal in a bid to persuade the airline to select its delayed 777X plane for planned direct flights from Australia to New York and London. Boeing pitched the workaround as it grapples with holdups to the upgraded 777, Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said in an interview in London, declining to …

Bloomberg Investors in the retail industry are a tough crowd. Just ask Walmart Inc, which matched sales growth estimates, raised its forecast — and watched its shares drift lower in midday trading as analysts picked over the numbers. The shares fell as much as 1.2% after earlier hitting a record high. What changed? After all, the key gauge of same-store …

Bloomberg Wizz Air Holdings Plc, Europe’s fastest-growing low-cost airline, escalated a spat with full-service rivals over carbon emissions, saying their reliance on lucrative business-class fares is at the heart of the industry’s problems with environmental campaigners. Airlines like Deutsche Lufthansa AG, which has attacked discounters for stimulating non-vital travel, rely on transporting corporate flyers in heavy seats with a CO2 …

ABU DHABI / WAM The National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC), a part of Senaat Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday announced an ambitious five-year plan, backed by multimillion dirham investments, to transform its digital capabilities and meet the evolving needs of its clientele, employees and the region’s oil and gas industry. As part of the digital transformation, the NPCC marked a strategic …

ABU DHABI / WAM Damac Properties announced its financial results for the nine months of 2019, reporting a total revenue of AED2.8 billion, with booked sales reported at AED2.4 billion. According to a press release issued by Damac Properties on Wednesday, gross profits for the same period stood at AED838 million reflecting gross profit margins of 30.3 percent. Total assets …

BloomBerg Oil fell for a third day amid concerns over the US-China trade dispute, and signs of another increase in American crude stockpiles. Futures declined as much as 1.1% in New York. President Donald Trump’s speech disappointed investors after he gave little insight on how the impasse with Beijing will be resolved, and warned of higher tariffs if a deal …

ABU DHABI / WAM Hub71, Abu Dhabi’s global tech ecosystem, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Misk Foundation – during the three-day Misk Global Forum in Riyadh – that outlined steps towards creating a more dynamic market for startups between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The MoU outlines steps towards building a larger shared ecosystem aimed at helping startups …

Bloomberg France added to the growing chorus of lawmakers and executives seeing consolidation as an avenue to revive Europe’s ailing banks, ahead of a key meeting that may jumpstart a plan to create a single market for the industry. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, speaking in an interview in Paris, said mergers to create “critical-size, global actors” in European finance would …

Bloomberg The world’s biggest banks pressed policy makers to pass an urgent Brexit fix to ensure European traders’ access to London derivatives clearinghouses and avoid rupturing 61 trillion pounds ($78 trillion) in contracts. The industry’s top lobbying associations told the European Commission, the European Union’s executive arm, that it must act fast or risk turmoil when the stopgap solution elapses …

Bloomberg New Zealand’s central bank (RBNZ ) left interest rates unchanged — defying widespread expectations of a cut — saying there are signs the domestic economy will stop slowing and that inflation will pick up. The local currency jumped. “Economic developments since the August Statement do not warrant a change to the already stimulatory monetary setting at this time,” the …