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  Bloomberg Treasuries rose with gold, while US and European equities slipped as a note of caution spread through global financial markets amid signs of growing political uncertainty in France and as investors await details from the Trump administration on promised pro-growth policies. The euro slumped versus the dollar and the region’s bonds advanced after prospective French presidential candidate Marine ...

  Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc reported an 8 percent drop in third-quarter earnings and said it’s “cautious” about meeting full-year targets as a capacity glut and stuttering economies cause fares to tumble. Profit after tax fell to 95 million euros ($102 million) in the three months ended Dec. 31 from 103 million euros a year earlier, Dublin-based Ryanair said in ...

  DUBAI / Reuters After years of delays, China’s first large homemade passenger jetliner will take to the air for its maiden flight in the first half of this year, state media reported on Monday. State-owned aircraft maker Commercial Aircraft Corp. of China Ltd., or Comac, based in Shanghai, has nearly completed work on the 175-passenger C919, the ruling Communist ...

  Bloomberg Sharp Corp. rose the most in two weeks after the company narrowed its full-year loss outlook and posted its first quarterly profit in more than two years. The shares climbed as much as 4.5 percent to 327 yen in Tokyo on Monday, the biggest intraday jump since Jan. 23. The net loss will reach 37.2 billion yen ($330 ...

  Bloomberg Warren Buffett once quipped that a ‘farsighted capitalist’ should have shot down Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk to spare investors all the losses they would suffer on airlines in the decades after the birth of flight. That’s why it was a surprise when, in November, the billionaire’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed investments in the four largest US carriers: ...

  JAKARTA / AP Asylum seekers who have been in Indonesia for years rallied in the capital on Monday urging the UN refugee agency to speed up the process of resettling them in third countries. Dozens of people from war-torn nations including Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Somalia called on the UNHCR to accelerate their resettlement, expressing concerns that they could ...

  BERLIN / AP Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting her Bavarian conservative allies in a show of unity following a long-running argument over migrant policy, setting the scene for a joint campaign for German elections in September. Bavaria’s Christian Social Union has dominated its southeastern state for decades and is traditionally an important source of national election votes for the ...

  TOKYO / AP In his debut abroad as the first retired general to lead the Pentagon in more than half a century, Jim Mattis found that in Japan and South Korea his experience in uniform is seen as an asset. Not everyone who knows Mattis well in the US shares that view, but he clearly was an instant hit ...

  BEIJING / AP A highly accurate Chinese ballistic missile capable of threatening U.S. and Japanese bases in Asia has made its latest appearance at recent Rocket Force drills. The medium-range DF-16 featured in a video posted last week on the Defense Ministry’s website showing the missiles aboard their 10-wheeled mobile launch vehicles being deployed in deep forest during exercises ...

  SEATTLE / AP Dozens of tech companies, including behemoths like Apple, Google, and Facebook, are siding with Washington state and Minnesota as they fight President Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. The companies filed briefs late Sunday with a federal appellate court saying the Trump executive order hurts ...