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Bloomberg Saudi Aramco’s earnings soared as oil prices and production climbed, allowing the world’s biggest crude producer to cover its quarterly dividend of $18.75 billion with free cash flow. Third-quarter profit rises to 114.1 billion riyals ($30.4 billion) from 44.2 billion riyals year ago, beating a company-compiled estimate of $29.1 billion. Free cash flow was $28.7 billion. Aramco has benefited …

Bloomberg The US and the European Union (EU) clinched a tariff-busting trade accord over the weekend that they’ll try to leverage into a broader global arrangement that would penalise countries that don’t meet low-carbon targets for steel and aluminum exports. President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed the agreement on Sunday in Rome on the …

Bloomberg Airbus SE boosted its financial targets for the second time this year while confirming a production ramp-up that would cement the European planemaker’s advantage over Boeing Co. The shares rose as much as 3.2% after Airbus said adjusted operating profit will reach $5.2 billion in 2021. The company reversed some of the charges it took for Covid-19 disruptions as …

Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc cancelled 460 flights after weather conditions affected its staffing needs. The cancellations made up 9% of its mainline and regional flights, it said. With two days of severe weather at its Dallas-Fort Worth hub, its arrival capacity was cut by more than half, it said. The weather conditions also meant it could use just two …

Bloomberg Argentina’s flagship carrier expects domestic operations to reach pre-pandemic levels by July of next year, according to its top executive. Aerolineas Argentinas President Pablo Ceriani said flights to tourist destinations within the country, from Patagonia in the south to Iguazu Falls in the northeast, are picking up faster than expected as the country emerges from one of the longest …

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc warned Wall Street that it will have to spend billions of dollars hiring workers, paying them more and even speeding partly empty trucks to their destinations to ensure that supply-chain snarls don’t derail the holiday shopping season. The massive outlays could wipe out Amazon’s profit during the last three months of the year, executives said. The company …

Bloomberg AllDay Marts Inc, a supermarket chain founded by the richest person in the Philippines, is poised to jump in its trading debut thanks to heavy retail investor interest. AllDay’s offer was about four times oversubscribed, with the company and billionaire Manuel Villar raising a combined 4.52 billion pesos ($89 million) by selling 7.52 billion shares at 60 centavos each. …

Bloomberg Aldi warned that the impact of global supply-chain bottlenecks will soon hit the shelves of its US grocery stores. “When you shop our aisles in the coming weeks and months, you may notice certain items arriving later than intended or after our advertised on-sale dates,” the German discounter said. Aldi’s warning underscores the intermittent shortages and delays that are …

Bloomberg China is pushing almost a trillion yuan ($156 billion) of funds into the banking system in just two weeks, reinforcing a signal that it will use short-term liquidity to sustain growth rather than ease monetary policy. In a pattern seen also in September, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) has been injecting huge amounts of cash through open-market operations …

Bloomberg Deutsche Bank AG Chief Financial Officer James von Moltke said the investment bank is pressing ahead with hiring in areas including mergers and acquisitions and rates in the US to grow its business. The firm has also been selectively hiring for government bond trading in Europe as well as in technology and healthcare dealmaking, Von Moltke said on a …