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Bloomberg There certainly have been worse days at LaGuardia, O’Hare and Miami airports. But on January 25 some of these busy routes came to a brief but abrupt halt — and that may have been among the final pushes that led President Donald Trump, already under pressure, to reopen the government. The White House for weeks had tried to minimise ...

Bloomberg Kering SA, the French owner of the Gucci luxury brand, owes about 1.4 billion euros ($1.6 billion) to Italy in back taxes, according to the conclusions of a government audit. The probe scrutinised business activities by Kering’s Swiss subsidiary, Luxury Goods International, from 2011 through 2017, according to a company statement. Kering said it contests the findings of the ...

Bloomberg Billionaire Lucio Tan, who controls Philippine Airlines Inc., denied reports about a forthcoming stake sale days after ANA Holdings Inc. confirmed it’s in talks with the carrier’s listed parent PAL Holdings Inc. There’s “no plan” to sell, Tan, 84, said in an interview on the sidelines of a central bank event in Manila. News that a stake sale is ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines pushed back the US debut of Airbus’s newest aircraft by a week because it can’t get needed approvals for the flights from the Federal Aviation Administration during the government shutdown. Inaugural flights of the Airbus A220 will be reset to February 7 from January 31, Morgan Durrant, a Delta spokesman, said. Other aircraft will be substituted ...

Bloomberg In the environmentalist mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle,” almost all of the attention has been paid to recycling. Now some of the world’s biggest consumer brands are trying to shift the focus to the second R, with a programme that provides products in reusable containers that can be returned for a refund. The durable packaging programme, called “Loop” — a ...

Bloomberg The European Union is prepared to hit 20 billion euros ($22.7 billion) of US goods with tariffs should President Donald Trump follow through on a threat to impose duties on EU cars and auto parts, said a senior trade official for the bloc. The assertion by Jean-Luc Demarty, director general for trade in the European Commission, the EU’s executive ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE is the second largest Arab investor in Egypt with $5.9 billion in investments over the past four years until the end of 2018, according to a top Egyptian official. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the First Arab Corporate Citizenship Forum held on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi, Chief Executive of the Egyptian General ...

DUBAI / WAM DP World on Wednesday announced that it has acquired an additional stake in DP World Australia (DPWA) from Gateway Infrastructure Investments and other financial investors, valuing DP World Australia at an enterprise val-ue of approximately AU$1.4 billion ($997 million). The acquisition is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close in Q1 2019. Following the closure ...

Bloomberg Kingdom Holding Co, one of Careem Networks FZ’s biggest backers, supports a potential merger between the Middle East ride-hailing firm and Uber Technologies Inc, according to the head of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s investment firm. “We don’t interfere nor are we party to the discussions, and if it ever happens I think we are supportive of it yes,” Chief ...

Bloomberg China risks being locked out of talks to establish new global rules to govern the $25 trillion e-commerce marketplace as the US and other nations resist an effort by Beijing to curb the plan’s ambition, according to people familiar with the talks. Negotiations, which are set to be launched on Friday on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s ...