A new era of airline loyalty programs has arrived. United Airlines announced this week that the criteria for elite qualification in its MileagePlus loyalty program would change dramatically next year. Starting in January of 2020, United’s loyalty members will earn elite status based on Premier Qualifying Flights and Premier Qualifying Segments only. Flight miles, the […] …read more […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday outlined the first phase of a deal to end a trade war with China and suspended a threatened tariff hike, but officials on both sides said much more work needed to be done before an accord could be agreed.
U.S. utility companies Avangrid Inc and PPL Corporation are in talks to combine their business, the Financial Times reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The report said https://www.ft.com/content/06dbb574-ec71-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55 it was unclear whether a deal would include an investment from Spanish utility Iberdrola, the world’s biggest wind power producer, which owns more than 80% of Avangrid. …read more […]
U.S. power company Sempra Energy is near an agreement to sell its Chilean business to State Grid Corporation of China for close to $3 billion, the latest deal in its bid to shed non-core assets, people familiar with the matter said on Friday.
Boeing Co said on Friday it was separating the roles of chairman and chief executive officer to allow CEO Dennis Muilenburg to focus full time on running the U.S. planemaker as it works to return its 737 MAX jet to service.
Boeing Co said on Friday it was separating the roles of chairman and chief executive officer to allow CEO Dennis Muilenburg to focus full time on running the U.S. planemaker as it works to return its 737 MAX jet to service. The planemaker said its decision was the latest of several actions by the board and the company’s senior leadership to strengthen its governance and safety management processes. “The board also plans in the near term to name a new director with deep safety experience and expertise to serve on the board and its newly established Aerospace Safety …read more […]
San Francisco’s offer significantly undervalued its assets and a deal wouldn’t be in the best interest of its customers, PG&E Chief Executive Officer Bill Johnson wrote in a letter, dated October 7, to San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The company’s financing strategy to emerge from bankruptcy did not include selling off company assets, Johnson said in the letter. In early September, eight months after the utility sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, San Francisco offered to buy PG&E’s assets serving the city. …read more […]
PG&E Corp rejected a $2.5 billion offer from San Francisco to buy the bankrupt Californian company’s power lines and other infrastructure within the city, citing the offer was inadequate.
The U.S. Federal Reserve’s quick pivot from shrinking its balance sheet by around $50 billion per month to now expanding by $60 billion monthly, has shown both the difficulty the Fed has faced under a shifting political environment, as well as the risks of experimenting with market-sensitive systems in real time.
Oct.11 — Uber Technologies Inc. plans to buy a majority stake in online grocer Cornershop, a deal designed to extend its geographic reach and bolster profits by bundling food delivery with rides. Bloomberg’s Lizette Chapman reports on “Bloomberg Technology.” …read more […]
Uber Technologies Inc said on Friday it would buy a majority stake in Chilean online grocery provider Cornershop as the ride hailing company seeks to widen its fast-growing food delivery app to include groceries and other goods.
U.S. authorities said on Friday they have halted a $1.7 billion unregistered digital token offering by the messaging service Telegram Group Inc and its TON Issuer subsidiary.
Millions of Californians may have just suffered an unprecedented, induced blackout by the state’s largest (and bankrupt) utility, and on top of that gasoline prices are soaring too …read more […]
Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News and a sometime critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, announced on Friday he was quitting the network after 23 years. In an unexpected on-air statement at the end of his daily “Shepard Smith Reporting” show, Smith said he had asked to leave. “Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News. …read more […]
U.S. stocks ended more than 1% higher on Friday though well off the day’s highs after the announcement of a partial trade deal between the United States and China.
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