Bloomberg Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc fell the most in more than a year after the in-flight shutdown of one of its engines on an Airbus SE A350 jet raised concerns that the model may be the latest afflicted by a design defect. The captain of the Iberia flight from New York to Madrid made an emergency landing in Boston 1 1/2 …

Bloomberg The only budget flights between London and Singapore will end in January when Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA scraps the long-haul route little more than a year after it started. The last flight to London will leave Singapore on January 11, according to Norwegian’s customer booking line. The airline’s website shows no flights on the route beyond that month. The …

Bloomberg Hermes International reported record first-half profitability as the maker of $10,000-plus Birkin handbags benefited from brisk sales in China, a trend that shows no sign of easing off even as stock prices slump in the Asian nation. Recurring operating income amounted to 34.5 percent of sales, up 0.2 point, the Paris-based company said in a statement. Analysts predicted 34.4 …

Bloomberg Schools, hospitals and governments have quickly embraced Amazon.com Inc. as a go-to source for supplies, propelling the company’s three-year-old business platform into a $10 billion annual enterprise. Its success may soon provide as much revenue as the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division and its digital-advertising services. The e-commerce giant likely will keep expanding the business service internationally — currently …

CAIRO / WAM The Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmad Aboul Gheit condemned on Tuesday the US administration’s decision to close the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO), office in Washington. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Aboul Gheit said that the decision came as part of a long series of US unfair policies towards the Palestinians aiming at terminating their …

Bloomberg Dubai’s Emaar Properties PJSC denied reports that it’ll provide 10-year visas to investors in some of its projects. “The issuance of visas falls under the purview of the concerned authorities and Emaar does not have any role regarding the same,” the company said in a statement. Al Bayan newspaper reported on Tuesday that the developer will offer 10-year visas …

Bloomberg The tariff battle with the US will probably cost China 700,000 jobs, or more in the event of further escalation. The job losses would come if the US imposes 25 percent tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese exports and China retaliates by devaluing its currency by 5 percent and adding to levies on US goods, according to economists led …

Bloomberg Abu Dhabi’s stock exchange is joining a race to introduce derivatives as Gulf bourses including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia put strategies in place to lure more investors. The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) plans to enable trading of futures contracts on single stocks in 2019, and they may eventually be available for the benchmark ADX General Index, Chief Executive …

Bloomberg US stocks swung between gains and losses as lingering anxiety about US and Chinese trade relations hung over global financial markets. Treasury two-year note yields rose to a one-decade high, while oil steadied. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq Composite all pushed higher briefly after starting the day in the red, before settling into little …

Bloomberg The pound may be in for a rough ride as contrasting headlines surrounding the fate of Brexit test traders’ nerves. Sterling whipsawed between gains and losses multiple times on Tuesday as investors adjusted their positions to news about the UK’s impending exit from the European Union. The currency tumbled from a six-week high after a report the EU sees …