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Bloomberg Apple Inc. is refusing to participate in an upcoming Senate hearing about anti-competitive practices at online app stores, according to a letter addressed to CEO Tim Cook from Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee, a Republican. The letter says the Cupertino, California-based company declined to send a witness for an upcoming hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel …

Bloomberg Samsung Electronics Co.’s profit for the first quarter rises 44% from the prior year as the early release of a new flagship smartphone and strong gadget sales softened the blow from a Texas power failure that took one of its factories offline. South Korea’s biggest company posted operating income of 9.3 trillion won ($8.3 billion) for the three months …

Bloomberg Oil traded near $63 a barrel in London as traders awaited weekly US inventory data for the latest steer on the demand recovery. Brent futures climbed 1%, swinging between gains and losses. Attention will shift later to US inventories, after an industry report showed a decline in crude stockpiles but a gain in gasoline holdings. The government data will …

Bloomberg Flipkart, the Indian e-commerce giant controlled by Walmart Inc, is making progress toward an initial public offering as soon as the fourth quarter of this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The US retail giant has set up an internal IPO team for Flipkart and is leaning towards a traditional debut in the US, said the people, …

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc can begin taking delivery of the Boeing Co 737 Max jet after European regulators signed off on a version of the single-aisle model that can squeeze in almost 200 passengers. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a type certificate for the so-called Max 200 model, according to a notification on its website. The action …

Bloomberg Markets settled into a holding pattern on Wednesday, with global stocks hovering around all-time highs as investors awaited details of the Federal Reserve’s most recent meeting. Bond yields fall. Futures on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 edged higher after the underlying gauges retreated overnight as volume on US exchanges dwindled below 10 billion shares for the first time …

Bloomberg Deliveroo Holdings Plc, which collapsed in its London debut last week after a 1.5 billion-pound ($2.1 billion) initial public offering (IPO), gained as much as 3.9% as retail investors began to trade the company’s shares. Although the food-delivery startup listed publicly on the standard segment of the London Stock Exchange, trading remained conditional, meaning only institutional investors were allowed …

Bloomberg Foreign investors are using the selloff in Malaysian glove makers to return to last year’s stock market stars. Top Glove Corp. and Supermax Corp. are among the top three stocks on the buy list of foreigners this year through April 2, attracting net inflows of 1.4 billion ringgit ($340 million), according to CGS CIMB Research. Global funds bought a …

Bloomberg Air France-KLM will receive as much as 4 billion euros ($4.7 billion) from a French rescue plan that may not be enough to see the embattled carrier through the still-raging pandemic. The package will see the French government reemerge as the biggest shareholder with a stake of much as 30%. It comes after months of negotiations between shareholders France …

Bloomberg AirAsia Group Bhd plans to raise as much as $300 million to expand its digital business arm AirAsia Digital, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Malaysian budget airline is in talks with prospective investors for what would be the first financing round for its digital arm and is working with at least one adviser on the …