From electric carmakers to space tourism to online learning firms, special-purpose acquisition companies (SPAC) have provided an easy route to the public markets for businesses with, generously, a long path to profitability. The SPAC boom is now also smoothing the way for a legacy media company — Britain’s biggest newspaper — to leave the public markets through a wily feat ...

The European Union wants to prove to the world just how serious it is about fighting climate change. But can it coerce other countries to act as decisively? On Wednesday, the European Commission was expected to outline a hugely ambitious package of climate legislation with the aim of achieving the bloc’s goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least ...

Bloomberg Air France-KLM has begun negotiations with Boeing Co and Airbus SE on what could be the group’s biggest-ever aircraft order as it seeks to expand low-cost operations and renew part of its main Dutch fleet. The 160 single-aisle planes would be destined for the Transavia discount division and European operations at KLM, a spokesman said. The brands currently operate ...

Bloomberg Adani Enterprises Ltd has taken control of Mumbai’s international airport from GVK Group, in a bold bet by billionaire Gautam Adani that travel will stage a rapid recovery after being crushed by the pandemic. The deal for Mumbai International Airport Ltd, India’s second busiest, makes Adani Airport Holdings Ltd the nation’s largest airport infrastructure company, accounting for 25% of ...

Bloomberg Porter Airlines Inc plans to order as many as 80 Embraer SA commercial E195-E2 jets as it expands services to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. The decision moves the regional carrier squarely onto larger rival Air Canada’s home turf as the airline industry prepares for a surge in travel demand as pandemic restrictions begin to ease. The introduction of jets ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong apparel giant Esquel Group said it is suing the US government for what it called the “erroneous” blacklisting of a subsidiary, saying it had been “falsely implicated” in the use of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region. The unit, Changji Esquel Textile Co, was added to the US Commerce Department’s Entity List during former President Donald Trump’s ...

Bloomberg General Electric Co vowed to curb the greenhouse gases produced by the use of its products—including thousands of fossil-fueled turbines and jet engines in operation around the world—in a bid to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The new goal, announced in GE’s annual sustainability report, signals that the industrial giant plans to go beyond an earlier pledge to make ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc is starting one of the biggest recruitment drives among European airlines, adding 2,000 pilots over the next three years as it plans to grab market share from rivals weakened by the pandemic. Europe’s biggest discount carrier needs pilots to fly its new Boeing Co 737 Max jets, which it began taking last month, Ryanair said. The ...

Bloomberg A blast in a bus carrying workers in Pakistan’s northern Kohistan region killed 12 people including nine Chinese citizens, as concerns mount an advance by the Taliban in Afghanistan may disturb peace in across the region. Pakistan authorities said on Wednesday the blast was caused by a gas leak, however China condemned the explosion and called on Pakistan to ...

Bloomberg The northern Ethiopia conflict may be headed for a dangerous turn after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s unilateral ceasefire failed and he backed calls to resist Tigray forces advancing to retake territory. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which federal troops had initially overrun after fighting that started in November, recaptured the state capital, Mekelle, and have taken back control of ...