Bloomberg Japan’s negative interest rates are turning into a positive in BNP Paribas SA’s eyes, as it joins other European banks in strengthening its markets business in the nation. France’s biggest bank has hired about 30 people in Tokyo since January in areas such as sales of structured products, and it plans to recruit more this year, people with knowledge ...

Bloomberg UK banks are better placed to withstand a slowing economy as the country exits the European Union, Moody’s Investors Service said. Moody’s raised the outlook on the nation’s banks to stable from negative, according to a report Wednesday. Strong capital positions, loan quality and funding should underpin profitability even as the economy slows, while additional costs associated with preparing ...

Bloomberg The European Union’s top bank regulator is feeling the love. Eight cities in the bloc are competing to host the European Banking Authority when it decamps from London as part of Brexit. Their come-hither pitches offer a variety of perks for the EBA’s 189 employees, from access to military spas in Prague to paintball in Warsaw. The proposals also ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s administration may be poised to strike a peculiar deal for the next Air Force One planes: buying jumbo jets abandoned by a defunct Russian airline. The U.S. Air Force is in talks to purchase two 747-8 jetliners from Boeing Co. that were originally bound for Transaero Airlines, once Russia’s second-largest airline, said a person briefed on ...

Bloomberg Canada, already the nation’s top-performing industrial stock this year, surged again after raising its profit outlook as the airline’s international expansion bolsters demand. The addition of 16 overseas and US routes is drawing more passengers using Canada as a stopover on their way to other destinations, the company said in a statement. Air Canada said it flew close to ...

Bloomberg Warren East’s reboot of struggling industrial giant Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc gathered pace as the aircraft-engine maker’s first-half profit more than doubled, aided by the chief executive’s restructuring plan. At the same time, East left his 12-month outlook for “modest” performance improvements unchanged in guidance on Tuesday, warning that the London-based company faces production hurdles in the second half that ...

Bloomberg The major US airlines that allege unfair competition by Persian Gulf rivals can’t show that new flight routes are costing US jobs, allies of the Middle Eastern carriers told Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Opening discussions with the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar over trade claims could hurt travel and tourism and encourage other countries to ...

Bloomberg Flybe Group Plc, Britain’s biggest regional airline, said it’s pursuing 10 to 20 more partnership agreements with major airlines following its introduction of flights to London’s Heathrow airport in March. The stock rose as much as 6 percent. The services from Edinburgh and Aberdeen offer bigger carriers the chance to tap Scottish markets by striking code-share deals that let ...

Dubai / WAM More than AED204 billion of investments are generated by 201 plastics plants operating in Abu Dhabi, according to the Industry Development Bureau of the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED). The revelation came during a workshop organised by the bureau as part of the ADDED’s ‘Industry Dialogue’ initiative, aimed at bolstering an investment-conducive environment at the ...

DUBAI / Reuters Dana Gas and its consortium partners have been awarded $14 million plus interest in a dispute with Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the UAE company said on Tuesday. The case was filed with the London Court of International Arbitration in 2013 over payments for gas liquids production. The court ordered the KRG to pay $14 million along ...