Bloomberg Credit Agricole SA finished 2017 with an unexpected increase in trading revenue as demand for buying and selling fixed-income securities defied the weak trend seen at most of its rivals. France’s second-largest bank posted a 1 percent revenue gain at its trading business in the fourth quarter, according to a statement on Wednesday. Three analysts surveyed by Bloomberg estimated …

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc is showing no hard feelings after its recent trade spat with Boeing Co. The No. 2 US carrier wants to be one of the first to fly a potential new mid-sized jetliner from Boeing, said Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian. That’s a vote of confidence from one of the most influential aircraft buyers as …

Bloomberg Singapore Airlines Ltd., the carrier that is spending $850 million to refit its A380 jets and attract premium passengers, got a boost to its third quarter earnings. That didn’t come from passengers, but from cargo. Southeast Asia’s biggest carrier reported its best quarterly profit in seven years for the quarter through December as a jump in cargo demand from …

Bloomberg Hennes & Mauritz AB executives, addressing a gathering of investors for the first time since reporting an earnings slump, failed to convince shareholders that the apparel retailer’s turnaround plan is on track. The Swedish company said it expected sales in comparable brick-and-mortar stores to recover in 2019 but said they’d continue to slide this year. The shares fell as …

Bloomberg A video from a drone that flew within feet of an airliner over Las Vegas and prompted outrage on the internet has spurred three influential US aviation lobbies to call for tighter regulations on hobby drones. Legislation exempting certain hobbyist drone pilots from oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration has hampered the aviation agency’s ability to oversee safety of …

Bloomberg Supersonic jetliner travel, which ended more than a decade ago with the Concorde, will make a comeback and transform the aviation industry in coming years, according to billionaire Richard Branson. “The next big thing, hopefully in my lifetime, will be supersonic travel coming back and people travelling around the world in next to no time,” Branson told Bloomberg Television …

Bloomberg Two days before Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA discloses its results for 2017, Chief Executive Officer Bjorn Kjos has called the year “a mess” for the carrier after it was hit by plane and pilot shortages at the height of summer. Norwegian was forced to ground more than 10 Boeing Co. 737 Max jets due to engine snags, delaying operations …

DUBAI / Agencies Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) will spend AED81billion ($22 billion) on energy projects over the next five years, with renewables accounting for a growing share of electricity output, Chief Executive Officer Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer said. DEWA last week awarded a contract for a 815-megawatt gas turbine project in the Dubai suburb of Al Aweer to …

DUBAI / Emirates Business Emaar Development PJSC, the UAE build-to-sell property development business majority-owned by Emaar Properties PJSC recorded a growth in net profit during full-year (January to December) 2017 by 30 percent to AED2.74 billion ($747 million), compared to the net profit of AED2.11 billion ($575 million) in year 2016. Total revenue for FY 2017 was AED 8.86 billion …

LONDON / Reuters The rise in global oil production, led by the United States, is likely to outpace growth in demand this year, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday. The Paris-based IEA raised its forecast for oil demand growth in 2018 to 1.4 million barrels per day, from a previous projection of 1.3 million bpd, after the International Monetary …