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  London / AFP British airline Monarch on Wednesday won a cash injection from its owner, allowing the carrier to continue flying holidaymakers amid Brexit-fuelled industry turbulence. Investment firm Greybull Capital has pumped another £165 million ($203 million, 184 million euros) into Monarch, enabling the airline to retain its licence to carry on selling package holidays, it said in a ...

  Bloomberg MTN Group Ltd., the South African wireless carrier with $1 billion stuck in Iran, agreed to make an investment of 20 million euros ($22 million) that will support Snapp.ir, the Islamic Republic’s first cab-hailing smartphone application. The funds “will allow us to quickly expand to other cities” than Tehran, Snapp Chief Executive Officer Shahram Shahkar said by e-mail ...

  Bloomberg Yum! Brands Inc, the US fast-food giant that’s spinning off its China unit, plans to add more outlets with the likelihood of tripling its presence to about 22,000 stores in Asia’s biggest economy. Yum China already has 7,300 restaurants in the country – five per million people – and has the potential to triple that in the long ...

  Bloomberg Australia’s government sold its biggest-ever bond, raising A$7.6 billion ($5.8 billion) in a debut offering of 30-year securities. Yields on benchmark 10-year debt jumped to the highest since June. “The eventual size was slightly larger than we expected, but does show good demand,” said Roger Bridges, chief global strategist for rates and currencies at Nikko Asset Management’s Australia ...

Bloomberg Lloyds Banking Group Plc, Britain’s largest mortgage lender, will eliminate about 1,340 jobs as part of a cost-cutting program that started in October 2014, according to a labor union. The move is part of a plan to pare about 12,000 roles by 2017, the Accord labor union, which represents the bank’s employees, said in a statement Wednesday. The job ...

  Bloomberg Wells Fargo & Co. combined corporate payments and some consumer-banking operations with the technology-innovations group, creating a unit run by the former leader of consumer lending, Avid Modjtabai. As head of the Payments, Virtual Solutions and Innovation unit, Modjtabai will report to Chief Operating Officer Tim Sloan, according to a statement Monday from the San Francisco-based bank that ...

  Bloomberg Less than a week after raising $3 billion in a private debt sale, Deutsche Bank AG returned for another $1.5 billion, offering a yield premium twice what it paid to borrow a year ago. The German lender sold the debt to mostly the same investors who bought last week’s offering at a slightly lower premium of 290 basis ...

  Bloomberg There’s no need at the moment for tighter monetary policy in Romania because the economy is experiencing the “best macroeconomic picture” since the collapse of communism and growth hasn’t become unsustainable, central bank Deputy Governor Liviu Voinea said. The consumer-led expansion in the European Union’s second-poorest member isn’t showing signs of overheating, recording a positive output gap — ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region and Chairman of the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC), stressed that the United Arab Emirates, under the leadership of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, continues to implement its developmental and humanitarian initiatives to alleviate the suffering of people in Yemen. ...

  Sofia / WAM Bolstering economic relations, and trade and investment between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bulgaria are the focus of talks between UAE Minister of Economy Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov in the Bulgarian capital. Trade between the UAE and Bulgaria stood at US$500 million in 2015, said Al Mansouri, who is ...