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U.S. and European trade groups are lobbying China to allow foreign workers back into the country after it shut its borders in late March to non-Chinese nationals to curb the coronavirus.

Alcoa said on Thursday it is considering laying off up to 534 workers from its San Ciprian aluminium plant in the Spanish region of Galicia, though a final decision has not yet been taken.

Budget retailer Mr Price is not looking to buy department chain operator Edcon "in part or in whole", the company said on Thursday, responding to market speculation.

Travellers at Zurich's airport will encounter robot cleaners, facemask vending machines and extra room to queue for boarding when flight operations resume in earnest as cornavirus curbs ease, officials said on Thursday.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co posted a steeper-than-expected quarterly loss on Thursday, as the apparel retailer had to close stores across the globe due to the COVID-19 pandemic, sending its shares down 8% in premarket trade.

Italy's biggest retail bank Intesa Sanpaolo has signed an accord with Gucci to ease financing for the small businesses that supply the Florentine luxury goods group owned by France's Kering.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co reported a 34% fall in quarterly sales and posted a wider loss on Thursday, as the apparel retailer was forced to close stores in markets around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shallow water in Argentina's Parana River will slow exports from the grains powerhouse and hurt the country's soy crushing margins at least through September, officials said, as more cargo ships are needed to carry the same amount of commodities.

Lysol is starring with celebrities and rock-bottom prices in the $8 trillion global travel industry's pitch to get people back on the road and in the air.

LATAM Airlines and Avianca Holdings survived the Great Depression, but just a few weeks of quarantines forced both companies into bankruptcy, marking Latin America as the world's top spot for airline financial ruin.

Two years ago, South Africa's first black female winemaker Ntsiki Biyela watched anxiously as the worst drought in a century scorched vineyards across Western Cape.

Shares in Turkey's aviation sector rose on Thursday on hopes for the resumption of international flights after Germany said it would lift a travel warning against 26 European Union countries.

A look at the day ahead from Dhara Ranasinghe, senior markets correspondent, EMEA. The views expressed are her own.

Safran shares rose on Thursday after Boeing said it would restart production of its 737 MAX jet and announced further cost-cutting measures.[nL1N2D918B]

Britain's easyJet is not planning on raising new equity currently but its chief executive did not rule it out in future as the low-cost airline seeks to survive the coronavirus pandemic which has wiped out air travel.

Airline SAS said on Thursday it was in intensive talks with major shareholders to tap more funding to help it ride out a pandemic-induced collapse in global air travel that saw it run a deep loss in its fiscal second quarter.

British low cost airline easyJet said it planned to cut up to 30% of its staff, or 4,500 jobs, and shrink its fleet, to fit the smaller market it expects to emerge from the collapse in air travel due to COVID-19.

Airline SAS said on Thursday it was in intensive talks with major shareholders to tap more funding to help it ride out a pandemic-induced collapse in global air travel that saw it run a deep loss in its fiscal second quarter.

China's biggest hog producer Wens Foodstuffs Group Co Ltd built nine new pig farms in the first quarter and has dozens more under construction, the company's honorary chairman said, as it aims to triple output over the next four years.

American Airlines Group Inc must reduce its management and support staff by about 30% and may have to cut frontline employees as it downsizes due to the coronavirus outbreak, showed a letter to employees made public on Wednesday.