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Bloomberg Little Caesars Enterprises Inc has teamed up with DoorDash Inc to offer nationwide delivery, as it seeks to navigate the expanding world of mobile and online ordering that’s threatening to sap business from laggards. Starting from Monday, delivery will be available at about 90% of Little Caesars’ US locations. The prices are the same as carryout, plus a $2.99 …

Bloomberg Federal aviation regulators are considering requiring pilots to complete simulator training before they can operate Boeing Co’s 737 MAX jets again, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing government and industry officials familiar with the matter. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) originally rejected the idea, causing extra costs and delays for airlines, the Journal said. But in recent weeks officials …

Bloomberg Boeing Co is looking at raising additional debt to help bolster its resources following the grounding of its 737 Max jetliner, Dow Jones reported. While Boeing had about $20 billion in available funds at the end of the third quarter, costs stemming from the Max crisis are increasing, the news agency said, citing people familiar with the matter it …

Bloomberg The milk float, a home-delivery service that evolved from horse-drawn carriages to early electric vehicles, belongs firmly in the past. Or does it? A little known Amsterdam-based online grocery company had revived the concept, but with a modern flourish. Picnic BV has a concept dubbed “Milkman 2.0” to deliver groceries using electric vehicles, focussing on less food waste and …

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading financial institution, signed an agreement to provide an $80 million Shariah-compliant Ijara facility to the Oman Shipping Company SAOC (OSC), a member of the ASYAD Group, for the financing of two VLCC (Very Large Crude Carriers) tankers within the OSC group. The transaction represents the OSC’s first Sharia-based …

Bloomberg It’s gone from a dearth to a glut of oil pipeline projects competing to serve slowing production growth in the Permian Basin. Five new oil pipelines are set to open in the Permian Basin through 2021, expanding a gap between production and takeaway capacity that’s already forcing companies to cut fees and could mean lower profits and cutthroat competition …

Bloomberg South African power utility Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, which generates about 95% of the country’s electricity, extended power cuts that started on January 4 until Monday after a conveyor belt failure at its Medupi plant — just as Andre de Ruyter officially takes over as head of the cash-strapped company. Eskom extended stage 2 load-shedding, the local term for …

Bloomberg High-beta stocks, occupants of the market’s frenetic edge, were the names everyone wanted to own in the fourth quarter, when they rallied on signs of peace. Saviours of active funds, the high-beta group — defined as companies that do a little better or a little worse than standard benchmarks — annihilated all comers over the last three months of …

Bloomberg The dollar had an awful December and things may only get worse. That’s the view of a growing number of fund managers and strategists including those at M&G Investments Ltd, Brandywine Global Investment Management and ABN Amro Bank NV. A truce in the US-China trade war, improving global growth and a shrinking yield premium on US Treasuries will undermine …

Bloomberg Bitcoin’s not yet having a happy new year. A sell-off in the largest digital token pushed the price below $7,000 on January 2. Bitcoin dropped as much as 4% to fall to its lowest level since mid-December, according to Bloomberg data. Bitcoin is coming off an eye-catching 2019, which saw it gain close to 95% despite repeated bouts of …