Trimble roundtable focuses on supply chain resilience

Santos Ltd. is restructuring the company’s oil and gas business in order to cut costs, according to an internal notice seen by Bloomberg, after a string of stymied takeover bids in recent years that have raised pressure to increase shareholder returns.

Airlines around the world are grounding more planes to cope with the increases in jet-fuel prices. Global capacity for May has been reduced by about 3 percentage points, with all but one of the 20 largest airlines slashing flights, according to data compiled by analytics firm Cirium Ltd. Lufthansa is scrubbing 20,000 uneconomic short-haul flights from its European summer schedule to save on fuel. Earlier in the week, United Airlines slashed its full-year profit forecast due to higher fuel prices

Russia extended fertilizer export quotas until December as a global deficit deepens due to the Iran war and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz, a key route for the seaborne trade in nutrients.

Investors are now demanding higher borrowing costs from the so-called 'BIF' problem countries.