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Bloomberg Tesco Plc warned profit will be squeezed this year as the UK’s biggest supermarket chain battles to keep prices low for consumers facing a cost of living crisis. The stock fell to its lowest level in more than six months. The grocer, along with rivals like Wm Morrison Supermarkets, is grappling with inflation that soared to a 30-year high ...

  Bloomberg LVMH SE posted strong revenue growth as the world’s largest seller of luxury goods defied disruptions from the war in Ukraine and the resurgence of Covid-19 in China, a potential harbinger for the rest of the industry. First-quarter sales advanced 23% on an organic basis to 18 billion euros ($19.5 billion), led by LVMH’s biggest unit, fashion and ...

  Bloomberg India barred 90 pilots from flying Boeing Co 737 Max jets after finding problems with a simulator they’d trained on to operate the aircraft, which the country cleared to fly again in August following a global grounding. A routine check of the simulator revealed deficiencies, and an investigation is underway to discover what caused them, Arun Kumar, chief ...

  Bloomberg Walmart named PayPal Holdings Chief Financial Officer as its new finance chief, turning to a company outsider as it seeks to build a financial-technology venture and a membership program. Rainey will start his new job June 6, Walmart said in a statement. A veteran of United Airlines who jumped to PayPal in 2015, Rainey will replace Brett Biggs, ...

Bloomberg Online prices in the US rose 3.6% last month from a year earlier, matching February’s record high, according to data compiled by Adobe Inc. From groceries to clothes and pet products, 14 of the 18 categories tracked by Adobe recorded price increases since March 2021. Online inflation, first observed in June 2020 after years of declines, has now persisted ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden for the first time accused Russia of committing genocide in Ukraine, significantly escalating his condemnation of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Speaking at an event in Iowa laying out steps to lower fuel costs that have surged during the war, Biden described Russia’s actions in the conflict as a “genocide.” He later stood by his comments, but ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s ruling party, the Social Democrats, have decided to support a Nato entry bid by June, newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported, citing party sources it didn’t identify. The Social Democrats led by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson have long been a holdout in the debate on whether Sweden should join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), officially opposing an entry and ...

  Bloomberg Switzerland is mirroring further trade and financial sanctions implemented by the European Union against Russia as the war in Ukraine continues. The latest sanctions, which include banning the import of coal and other products like vodka, as well as a ban on the participation of Russian companies in public procurement, was expected to come into effect from Wednesday. ...

  Bloomberg Aid has trickled into parts of Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region since federal and rebel forces declared a truce late last month after 17 months of fighting, but has only reached a tiny proportion of the millions of people who need it so far. The World Food Programme dispatched 20 trucks carrying food and other supplies to Tigray on ...

  Bloomberg Over the past few years, the US has accused China of using “debt diplomacy” to make developing nations across the world more dependent on Beijing. Yet the cases of Sri Lanka and Pakistan — both friends of China facing dire financial situations as inflation soars — show that President Xi Jinping’s government is becoming more reluctant to pull ...