Bloomberg Oil dropped as US crude inventories rose for the first time in more than a month. Futures dipped as much as 1 percent on Wednesday in New York. Nationwide, crude stockpiles expanded by 1.85 million barrels last week, the first increase since early August, the Energy Information Administration said. Refiners are buying less crude as post-summer maintenance work ramps …

Bloomberg The head of an industry group representing almost 300 of the world’s biggest airlines slammed an impasse that threatens to ground planes after Brexit as unprofessional and showing disdain for passengers who have bought tickets in good faith. A deal removing the risk of disruption to flights when Britain leaves the European Union on March 29 must be hammered …

Bloomberg The head of Shopify Inc. said Amazon is encroaching on its turf — and it’s confident it can compete. “They are creating products now that help small businesses market their products better which is frankly the space we are in,” Tobias Lutke, chief executive officer of Ottawa-based Shopify, said in an interview with BNN Bloomberg TV at a tech …

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc said it will have to cancel services on Friday after cabin crew unions in Germany, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Portugal and Italy called a strike. Only a “tiny minority” of staff are involved in the action, Ryanair said, adding that the scrapped services amount to 8 percent of the planned schedule and will affect about 30,000 customers. …

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc.’s computer breakdowns are turning into an unwelcome, annual affair. The US airline grounded all domestic flights on September 25 to deal with a technology issue that affected some of its systems. About an hour later, Delta said it had restored all its systems, allowing the services to resume. While the carrier said there were no …

Bloomberg Going viral may soon be a requirement for products to get prime placement in a Debenhams store. At its “store of the future” northwest of London in Watford, England, Debenhams Plc is leveraging an online community of beauty-product enthusiasts to drum up foot traffic. The merging of online and in-store shopping experiences is the latest effort to transform the …

Bloomberg UBS Group AG’s investment bank was dealt a fresh blow as Andrea Orcel, the top rainmaker at a business that’s lost much of its clout in a shift toward wealth management, left for Spain’s Banco Santander SA. The Swiss bank promoted two executives to jointly lead the investment bank, splitting the role held by Orcel, it said. Piero Novelli, …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co. is opening its first retail branches in the Philadelphia area as part of a broader plan to bolster the consumer bank by expanding into more than a dozen new markets over five years. The largest US bank by assets is planning to open about 50 branches and hire 300 people in Philadelphia, Delaware and Southern …

Bloomberg The White House’s latest pick for the Federal Reserve Board was deliberately chosen for her financial stability expertise and knowledge of the Fed system to round out a board of monetary policy experts and Wall-Street savvy lawyers. President Donald Trump plans to nominate Nellie Liang, a Ph.D. economist who ran the Fed’s financial stability unit until her retirement last …

Bloomberg Morgan Stanley’s highest ranking women are flying to New York this week from around the world to solve a gnawing problem: There aren’t enough of them. The bank, looking to support the advancement of women to its top echelons, is hosting a summit in Manhattan on Wednesday and on Thursday for about 350 who are already managing directors at …