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Bloomberg London Heathrow airport’s 16 billion-pound ($21 billion) expansion plan may have cleared its last major political hurdle, but the project has yet to convince British Airways, the hub’s biggest customer. After UK lawmakers backed the construction of a third runway by 415 votes to 119, BA owner IAG SA responded by saying that the financing arrangements proposed by Heathrow ...

Bloomberg Conagra Brands Inc. agreed to buy Pinnacle Foods Inc. for about $8.1 billion in cash and stock, gaining freezer-aisle brands such as Birds Eye to capitalise on growing demand for frozen foods. The deal values Pinnacle at $68 a share, the companies said in a statement. The price is 23 percent above Pinnacle’s closing level on April 19, when ...

Bloomberg Chinese airlines ordered more than $100 billion of planes from Airbus SE and Boeing Co. in the past decade. Paying those bills is getting harder with the prospect of a trade war pushing the local currency to its lowest level in six months. A weaker yuan means Air China Ltd., China Southern Airlines Co. and China Eastern Airlines Corp. ...

Bloomberg Air Tanzania Co. Ltd. will fly to Mumbai three times a week starting in September, it’s first flight outside the continent, after taking delivery of a Boeing 787-800 Dreamliner next month, the Dar es Salaam-based Daily News newspaper reported, citing Commercial and Business Development Director Patrick Ndekana. Tanzania is revamping its erstwhile struggling national carrier after investing in new ...

Bloomberg Steinhoff Africa Retail Ltd. shares fell after Tekkie Town head Bernard Mostert quit alongside fellow senior managers following a legal claim lodged against the retailer by the shoe chain’s founding shareholders. STAR, as Steinhoff Africa is known, has repeatedly said it shouldn’t be held liable for the claim by Tekkie Town founders led by Braam van Huyssteen, which relates ...

Bloomberg BYD Co. is building what would become the world’s largest vehicle-battery factory next year in an effort by the Chinese electric-car maker to increase capacity and help revive earnings growth. The plant will have an annual capacity of 24 gigawatt-hours when it is fully in use in 2019, enough to equip 1.2 million BYD Tang electric cars, according to ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s police seized about $273 million of items that included Hermes International handbags, Rolex watches and cash in raids linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak amid investigations into troubled state fund 1MDB. Luxury goods such as a 6.4 million ringgit diamond necklace, 51.3 million ringgit worth of Hermes bags and more than 200 sunglasses valued at 374,000 ringgit ...

Bloomberg Bilateral tariffs may reduce the value of US farm exports to China by about 40 percent, according to a report published by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, a government think tank. US soybean, cotton, beef and cereal shipments to China may each drop by 50 percent in value, it said in a report published on its official WeChat ...

Bloomberg Hedge funds run by Christopher Hohn and Dinakar Singh accused one of India’s largest real estate developers of defrauding its foreign investors of at least $1.5 billion. “If we do nothing, we will largely bleed dry and get nothing back,” Singh, who heads Axon Capital, said at a gathering in New York of investors in a fund started by ...

Bloomberg Radisson Hospitality Inc. is plunging ahead with a plan to triple capacity in China over five years, despite its expectation that a looming trade war with the US will damp travel demand in the country. The chain controlled by China’s HNA Group Co., the aviation-to-hotels conglomerate, has 15 hotels in the country for a total 4,147 rooms, with 16 ...