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Bloomberg The Lion Air plane that crashed last week had faulty airspeed readings during its last four flights, Indonesia said, asking Boeing Co. to take corrective measures on the aircraft to prevent similar accidents. Indonesia’s National Transportation Safety Committee is collecting data related to the recovery efforts made during the prior malfunctions, the agency said in a statement on Monday, ...

Bloomberg Did Michael Kors Holdings overpay for Versace? The market said yes, but some analysts see something different. The stock got two upgrades in the past two days, with analysts at UBS Group AG and Piper Jaffray both citing the potential for Versace to drive gains after the stock was punished for the $2.2 billion acquisition in late September. Michael ...

Bloomberg South African Airways is working to find ways to roll over 9.2 billion rand ($642 million) of debt by March as the loss-making state-owned carrier works to make more routes profitable, Chief Executive Officer Vuyani Jarana said. While gross profit margins were negative on most routes when he started a year ago, domestic and regional routes are now making ...

Bloomberg The hedge funds that now own the Toys ‘R’ Us brand plan to relaunch the toy retailer as a standalone operation next year, according to people familiar with the matter. Solus Alternative Asset Management and Angelo Gordon will look to raise capital to help revive the chain, which closed its last stores at the end of June, and are ...

Bloomberg Kraft Heinz Co. shares sank in late trading on Thursday after the packaged-food company posted quarterly profit that missed estimates, dragged down by sluggish sales growth and higher costs. Earnings per share were 78 cents in the quarter, excluding some items, trailing the average analysts’ estimate of 81 cents. Adjusted EBITDA in the key US region was down 16 ...

DUBAI / WAM Emaar Malls, the shopping malls and retail business majority-owned by Emaar Properties, has recorded a growth in net profit of 9 percent during the first nine months of the year to AED1.639 billion ($446 million), compared to the same period in 2017 at AED1.507 billion ($410 million). Revenue for the first nine months of the year was ...

ABU DHABI / WAM Non-resident deposits acr-oss UAE’s banking system reported solid growth during first nine months of ye-ar, with their growth outst- ripping retail loans provided to non-residents by AED63 billion by end of Q3. The expansion in banks’ holdings of deposits corroborates investor confidence in the UAE banking sector, reckoned the first in the region in terms of ...

Emirates Business Emirates NBD Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) — a composite indicator designed to give an accurate overview of operating conditions in the non-oil private sector economy — released its October data. Non-oil private sector companies in the UAE reported another sharp increase in new business during October. Anecdotal evidence suggested that promotional activity was partly linked to the improvement. ...

ABU DHABI / WAM The results of the General Index on Consumer Confidence in Abu Dhabi’s economic performance in Q2, issued by the Department of Economic Development — Abu Dhabi, showed a considerable improvement in confidence and optimism levels among consumers in Abu Dhabi. The confidence represent one of the key enablers supporting busin- ess environment and economic performance.

ABU DHABI / WAM The Federal Customs Authority (FCA) launched the country’s first unified national customs strategy in Abu Dhabi, in cooperation with local customs departments, under the patronage of HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and with the attendance of its strategic partners. Ali bin Subaih Al Kaabi, Customs Commissioner ...