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Bloomberg Flaws in jet engine fan blades like one that cracked and broke loose in April, killing a Southwest Airlines Co. passenger, have been discovered on planes operated by several carriers, and the manufacturer is moving to further tighten inspections. General Electric Co., part of a venture that makes the engines, found a cracked blade during post-accident inspections of another ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp.’s pilots approved the first labour contract in the carrier’s history. The four-year pact was approved by 74 percent of those voting, with 98 percent of eligible pilots participating, the Air Line Pilots Association said. The agreement is effective from August 1 and was reached after more than three years of negotiations. The contract raises pay rates ...

Bloomberg Delta Air Lines Inc. and United Continental Holdings Inc. are offering free flights for immigrant families detained and separated under President Donald Trump’s “zero-tolerance” crackdown on illegal border crossings. The airlines are providing vouchers for one-way domestic service so that parents and children that have been released can travel to sponsors or relatives in the US. A federal court ...

Bloomberg L’Oreal SA posted disappointing sales of mass-market cosmetics, triggering a slide in the share price even as buoyant Chinese demand lifted revenue from high-end products. The French beauty conglomerate’s sales of consumer brands such as Maybelline rose at a less-than-stellar pace of 2.3 percent in the second quarter, the company said. While L’Oreal turned in a much stronger performance ...

Bloomberg The US economy accelerated to a 4.1 percent pace of growth in the second quarter, the fastest since 2014, letting President Donald Trump claim a win for his policies even though expansion is projected to cool. The annualized rate of gains in gross domestic product was just shy of the 4.2 percent median forecast in a Bloomberg survey. It ...

Bloomberg A US jury awarded International Business Machines Corp. $82.5 million after finding that Groupon Inc. infringed four of its e-commerce patents. The verdict is a boon to IBM’s intellectual-property licensing business, which last year brought in $1.19 billion for the company, holder of more than 45,000 patents. Groupon fell 7.8 percent to $4.84 in New York trading. IBM sued ...

Bloomberg Steinhoff International Holdings NV said the former head of finance in Europe has left the boards of two key units as an investigation into the scandal-hit retailer’s inaccurate accounts deepens. The owner of Conforama in France and Mattress Firm in the US, which last week won support from a majority of creditors to restructure its 9.4 billion euros ($11 ...

Bloomberg Canada’s new Minister of International Trade Jim Carr has invited a dozen trade ministers to meet in October to discuss how to fix the World Trade Organization (WTO). But two countries have been left off the list: the US and China. The goal is to “identify concrete and tangible ways the operation and function of the WTO can be ...

Bloomberg Mark Zuckerberg is counting the cost of user disenchantment with Facebook Inc. His fortune tumbled by $16.8 billion in late trading, as shares of the social media giant slid 20 percent in New York on disappointing results. If that holds through, he will slide to sixth place from third on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. It would also wipe his ...

Bloomberg Are Britons living beyond their means? That’s the question being asked by the Office for National Statistics after households saw their outgoings exceed their incomes last year for the first time in three decades. Each household spent or invested about 900 pounds ($1,187) more than they received on average — 25 billion pounds in total, according to an ONS ...