Bloomberg Airbus SE appointed Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc’s Eric Schulz as sales chief, plucking a top executive from one of its most important partners to replace John Leahy, who racked up more than $1.7 trillion dollars in jetliner deals over 23 years. Schulz, 54, the head of civil aerospace at the UK engine maker, will join Airbus as an executive vice ...
Read More »IAG chooses Paris as second base for Level
Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA chose Paris as a second base for its discount airline Level, which will offer transatlantic flights to destinations like New York and the Caribbean as carriers compete to lower prices on longer routes. CEO Willie Walsh unveiled the plan in the French capital, which won out over Rome for the designation. Level plans to ...
Read More »EasyJet reports gender pay gap at 52%, UK’s highest
Bloomberg EasyJet Plc, Britain’s biggest discount airline, has revealed that men at the company earn on average 51.7 percent more than women, one of the highest gender pay gaps reported so far in the UK as part of government transparency requirements. Under the new rules, businesses with more than 250 employees have to report the extent of the pay gap ...
Read More »Macy’s chief sees strong start to holidays
Bloomberg Macy’s Inc. CEO Jeff Gennette says the holiday season is off to a strong start, helped by a surge in outerwear sales. The retailer had sold 200,000 coats during Black Friday morning itself, Gennette said in an interview. And he expects to ring up a million coats, sweaters and fleeces during the long weekend. The outlook suggests that Macy’s ...
Read More »Bali airport shut again as ash cloud soars from Volcano
Bloomberg The airport in Bali will remain closed for a second day as a volcano on the Indonesian island continued to rumble, prompting more flight cancellations while authorities scrambled to assist stranded passengers. The Ngurah Rai International Airport at the popular Asian tourist spot will be shut until 7 am on Wednesday, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman for Indonesia’s National ...
Read More »OPEC backs nine-month extension of output cuts
Bloomberg All OPEC members support extending their oil production cuts until the end of 2018, although Russia hasn’t yet committed to the proposal bef- ore Thursday’s meeting in Vienna, said people familiar with the matter. While Russia and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries have crafted the outline of a deal to continue their curbs for nine months beyond the ...
Read More »Shell restores full cash dividend as it emerges from crude slump
Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc will pay its entire dividend in cash for the first time in more than two years as Europe’s biggest oil company seeks to demonstrate it has left the worst of the crude slump behind. From this quarter, Shell will no longer offer shareholders the option to take the payout in stock, it said. The company ...
Read More »Afghan’s largest solar plant to secure $45mn bank fund
Bloomberg Afghanistan will build its first 20-megawatt solar power plant in a bid to meet rising energy demand in a country that imports most of its electricity. The project in the capital will be funded by the Asian Development Bank, which is providing $45 million, according to a statement emailed. It will be built in the Naghlu area of Kabul’s ...
Read More »Oil extends declines towards $63
Bloomberg Brent crude slipped towards $63 a barrel before OPEC and its allies meet this week to discuss prolonging their output cuts beyond March. Futures dropped as much as 1.2 percent in London, extending Monday’s decline. Uncertainty over the outcome of Thursday’s meeting is creating the risk of a slide in prices, which have gained on assumptions that the curbs ...
Read More »Drivers, not refiners, may bear brunt of US biofuel quotas
Bloomberg Senator Ted Cruz may want to spotlight a new victim in the King Corn versus Big Oil tussle: US motorists. The Texas Republican took up arms for fuel makers after President Donald Trump upheld the Renewable Fuel Standard, the 12-year-old rule that forces refiners to either mix biofuels in with their gasoline and diesel or buy credits. Despite the ...
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