Bloomberg Later this year, Apple Inc. will put augmented reality software in as many as a billion mobile devices. Alphabet Inc.’s Google beat Apple by three years in releasing AR tools, but its features are on very few phones and haven’t gained wide acceptance. By contrast, Apple can easily pair its software and devices, an advantage that will help it …

Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. has lost ‘tens of millions of dollars’ in revenue from municipal and state clients since a sales scandal in its consumer bank erupted 10 months ago, Chief Financial Officer John Shrewsberry said in a statement. Shrewsberry said the decline isn’t material to Wells Fargo’s earnings, but added the company is working to regain the business. …

Bloomberg The Indian rupee may weaken as global funds start to hit buying limits for the nation’s debt and valuations for equities look expensive, according to HSBC Holdings Plc. “I won’t be surprised if we drift down to 65-65.25 to the dollar over the next two months,” Pradeep Khanna, HSBC’s head of global markets trading for India in Mumbai, said …

Bloomberg Fears of a long spell of low oil prices haven’t shaken Wall Street’s confidence in the sector. With the price of crude languishing around $46 a barrel in New York, the industry’s bankers remain optimistic about their energy investments, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. That’s different from a year earlier, when banks pulled …

Bloomberg The pound rose to its highest since September as weak inflation data in the U.S. weighed on the dollar, while traders are increasingly betting on tighter monetary policy in the U.K. Sterling, which crossed $1.30 and rose against all of its major peers, has largely defied signs that the UK economy is slowing, with some Bank of England policy …

Bloomberg South Africa’s central bank will persist in seeking a court order to set aside an instruction from the nation’s anti-graft ombudsman that its mandate must be changed, even after Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane said she won’t oppose the regulator’s application. In a report last month, Mkhwebane instructed the legislature to start a process to amend the nation’s constitution to …

Bloomberg UniCredit SpA and Koc Holding AS are weighing a capital increase of about $1 billion for their Turkish venture Yapi & Kredi Bankasi AS to strengthen its buffers, according to people with knowledge of the matter. UniCredit, which together with Koc owns 82 percent of the Turkish bank, wants to carry out the fundraising by the end of the …

Bloomberg EasyJet Plc will create a new airline based in Vienna that will shield its routes within the European Union against any fallout from Britain’s negotiations to exit the bloc. The approval process for an air operator certificate that has been filed with Austria’s aviation regulator is “now well advanced,” with clearance expected in the near future, Luton, England-based carrier …

Bloomberg India’s biggest airline grounded at least seven Airbus SE jetliners as it awaits fixes for balky Pratt & Whitney engines, joining several carriers around the world that have pulled the planes from service. IndiGo stopped using one A320neo aircraft this month after grounding four in June and two in May, according to data from flight-tracking website Flightradar24. Including IndiGo’s …

Dubai / Emirates Business Better Life, one of the leading home appliance retailers in the UAE and a division of Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group, LLC has launched the ‘Better Surprises’ promotion as part of Dubai Summer Surprises (DSS) to provide attractive savings for customers. The promotion extends across its full range of appliances which includes built-in and major domestic …