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Hong Kong’s protests are damping real estate activity, spurring speculation of a long-overdue tumble in the city’s notoriously expensive housing market. Prices are likely to prove more resilient than some expect. Home transactions have dropped by more than half from this year’s peak in May, before the unrest began, to 3,447 in September and 4,001 last month, figures from the ...

There are plenty of reasons why Deutsche Telekom AG and Vodafone Group Plc make for uneasy bedfellows. But if Europe’s biggest telecommunications firms can overcome their differences, they would benefit from forging a strong alliance for one of their biggest cost centers: towers. The structures on which mobile operators install their antenna have generated a flurry of dealmaking as valuations ...

Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc is preparing to open Amazon Go supermarkets and pop-up stores, an expansion of the company’s cashierless ambitions that includes the possibility of licensing the technology to other retailers. The new store formats and licensing initiative could launch as soon as the first quarter of 2020, according to a person familiar with the project. Amazon is testing a ...

Bloomberg The future is electric, at least for Porsche. “We are in the beginning of a transition phase in the car industry, and to Porsche, to switch over to battery electric fully,” said Klaus Zellmer, president and chief executive officer of the luxury automaker’s North American division. “Luxury consumers expect, with a brand’s purpose, for sustainability to play a major ...

Bloomberg Shipments of Apple Inc’s popular AirPods wireless earphones are expected to double to 60 million units in 2019, according to people familiar with the Cupertino-based company’s production plans. This has been driven in part by “much higher” than expected demand for the pricier AirPods Pro model unveiled in October. The $249 AirPods Pro — which offer noise cancellation and ...

Bloomberg Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA, Brazil’s largest airline, is holding talks about expanding ties with American Airlines Group Inc and United Airlines Holdings Inc after parting ways with longtime US partner Delta Air Lines Inc. The carriers are discussing whether to establish codeshare deals, which enable airlines to book passengers on each other’s flights, Gol chief financial officer (CFO) ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co and Embraer SA won unconditional antitrust approval from China for their deals to jointly manufacture small jetliners and market a military cargo jet. China’s decision removes a significant hurdle for the plans, in which the US planemaker will buy a majority stake in the commercial aircraft division of its Brazilian counterpart. But a major obstacle remains for ...

Bloomberg A strike at South African Airways (SAA), which has dragged on for more than a week and grounded a number of flights, ended with workers having agreed “in principle” to a revised pay deal, a senior union official said. The deal was expected to see workers get a 5.9% pay increase, with a further increment — details of which ...

Bloomberg After clearing up unwanted items last quarter as sales slumped, Macy’s Inc said it is now geared up for improvement in the crucial holiday quarter. The department-store offered mixed signals, cutting its full-year profit outlook after a key sales metric fell more than it anticipated last quarter. With some of the bad news now past and inventories cleared, the ...

Bloomberg Managers at a federal air-traffic facility in Florida regularly ignored safety rules for handling high-altitude traffic and then instituted a policy that exacerbated the risks after complaints by a whistle-blower, according to the US Office of Special Counsel (OSC). Aircraft being transferred from one controller to the next were supposed to be on specified altitudes, but some controllers weren’t ...