Bloomberg Stock investors have stopped heeding the increasingly skeptical message of Wall Street earnings forecasters. Maybe everyone should. Pessimism of any type is starting to look like a misjudgment in the stock market of 2019, a year with a shot at becoming one of the best in decades. The S&P 500 has surged for four straight weeks, closing at a …

Bloomberg It’s old, but it’s not slowing down. A bull market that traces its lineage to the depths of the financial crisis is revving up again, notching its fourth straight weekly gain and pushing its advance in 2019 past 22%. After wavering at mid-year amid a US-China trade war and recession anxieties, American stocks are back in melt-up mode, ending …

Bloomberg Hope for a boom in the global solar industry this year is fading as the top market is expected to miss its installation target. China is likely to fail meeting the new capacity estimates it touted earlier this year, which were as high as 45 gigawatts, according to analysts at Daiwa Capital Markets and BloombergNEF, as well as the …

Bloomberg After weeks of hand-wringing over its fate, the flagship location of Barneys New York Inc will stay open for at least another year, albeit with a new format. The store will morph into a “pop-up retail experience” including boutiques, art and other cultural events, according to a statement from its new owner, Authentic Brands Group LLC. But the centre …

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc may pull out of bidding for Alitalia SpA, complicating efforts to rescue the bankrupt Italian carrier, Corriere della Sera reported, citing unidentified people familiar. The Atlanta-based firm doesn’t want to take part in a bidding game and might tell Alitalia’s administrators that its offer to inject about 100 million euros ($112 million) is final, Corriere …

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA reported a drop in third-quarter earnings after the UK carrier’s first pilot strike since 1979 disrupted flights and held back sales. The airline group, which also includes Spain’s Iberia and Aer Lingus of Ireland, had an adjusted operating profit of $1.6 billion, according to a statement, down 7% compared with 2018 on a pro …

Bloomberg Airbus won an order from VietJet Aviation for 20 of A320neo narrow-body jets as the Asian carrier waits on deliveries of Boeing’s grounded 737 Max. The deal is for the new A321XLR extra-long-range version of Airbus’s work-horse plane, VietJet said, adding that it will become one of the first airlines in the world to receive a model unveiled at …

Bloomberg Air France-KLM Group third-quarter earnings fell on lower demand for cargo transport and a reduction in lucrative last-minute passenger bookings at the height of the summer travel season. The shares fell the most in eight months. Operating profit dropped 16% to 900 million euros ($1 billion), the carrier said in a statement, missing an average forecast of 963 million …

Bloomberg For more than two decades, airline credit cards offered consumers a simple formula: Spend a dollar, earn a mile, pay an annual fee, repeat. If you played the game correctly, you’d score at least a free ticket each year—just by making everyday purchases. The only issue? As powerful rewards cards such as the Platinum Card from American Express and …

DUBAI / Emirates Business The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) is on course to break last year’s annual volumes record of 22.3 million contracts traded, having already traded 20.3 million contracts this year, valued at $373 billion. Last month, the DGCX traded 1.68 million contracts, and registered Average Daily Volumes (ADV) of 72,921, up 11.5% year-on-year (y-o-y). DGCX’s success …