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  Bloomberg Bank of America Corp., which spends about $1 billion a year handling cash, will save money and require fewer employees as more customers make payments electronically, Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said. “This is just the reality: the more electronification, the less people,” Moynihan, 56, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television. “It’s the way we’ve gone from ...

  Bloomberg Ratings for Nova Ljubljanska Banka d.d., Nova Kreditna Banka Maribor d.d. and Abanka d.d may be raised by Moody’s Investors Service as Slovenia’s economy gathers strength, improving lenders’ funding conditions following a reduction in wholesale borrowing. All long-term ratings and rating inputs of Nova Ljubljanska and Abanka d.d. were placed on review for upgrade while the long-term deposit ...

  Bloomberg Societe Generale SA, France’s second-largest bank, reported second-quarter profit that beat analyst estimates, capping a string of positive results for the country’s lenders. Net income rose 8 percent to 1.46 billion euros ($1.6 billion) from a year ago, the Paris-based bank said in a statement. That beat the 1.36 billion-euro average estimate of six analysts compiled by Bloomberg. ...

  Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co.’s board made no bones about its response to the labor groups that called for the ouster of two top executives: They’re not going anywhere. After the carrier’s four largest unions earlier this week called for Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly and Chief Operating Officer Mike Van de Ven to step down, directors fired back in ...

  Bloomberg Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and e-commerce startup Jet.com Inc. are trying to close a $3 billion acquisition as soon as Monday that will require Jet founder Marc Lore to head the retailer’s online division for several years, according to people familiar with the matter. Lore would stay in that role for longer than the two-plus years he spent at ...

  Nairobi / AFP When Kenya Airways published the country’s worst-ever corporate results last month, the scale of the loss revealed the effects of several disastrous decisions that the national carrier is struggling to reverse. The airline’s “Pride of Africa” slogan rang uncomfortably hollow when the 26.22- billion-shilling ($259-million) loss was announced, driven by higher borrowing costs and unfavourable exchange ...

  Bloomberg Pete Pollinger and his wife, Julie, are relocating from Boca Raton to Melbourne, a city of about 70,000 on Florida’s Space Coast, named for its proximity to NASA rocket sites at Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center. They weren’t just hunting for a place to live. As they get ready to move this year, they’re also looking ...

  Bloomberg Evergrande Real Estate Group Ltd., controlled by billionaire Chairman Hui Ka Yan, paid 9.1 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) for a 4.68 percent stake in China Vanke Co., the competitor embroiled in an ownership tussle with a key shareholder. The Guangzhou-based developer bought Vanke’s Shenzhen-traded shares through a unit, it said in a filing to Hong Kong’s stock exchange ...

  Bloomberg New York’s condo slowdown is upending the market for one of the most coveted assets in tightly packed Manhattan: land. Sales of parcels for development are plummeting as builders, seeing signs that a once-hot property market is cooling, offer prices that sellers won’t agree to. Just 48 land deals were completed in the first half of 2016, compared ...

  SEATTLE / AP Seattle-based Amazon is unveiling its first branded cargo plane, one of 40 jetliners that will make up the e-commerce giant’s own air transportation network as it takes more control of its delivery process. The latest push to speed delivery of its products comes as the company ships an increasing number of packages worldwide. Amazon’s parcel volume ...