Bloomberg Peach Aviation Ltd. will become the first Japanese carrier to accept bitcoin as payment for airline tickets as the discount airline aims to attract more tourists from other parts of Asia. The cryptocurrency can be used to book seats starting by the end of the year, Peach said in a statement in Tokyo, adding a change in Japan’s law ...

Bloomberg Boeing Co.’s pursuit of a trade complaint against Canadian rival Bombardier Inc. at a time it’s negotiating with the government on a major sale of military aircraft is “lousy customer relations,” Canada’s ambassador to the US said. Boeing alerted Canada shortly before the company petitioned the US to probe whether Bombardier’s C Series aircraft is being sold at unfairly ...

CAIRO/ Reuters Egypt’s central bank raised its key interest rates by 200 basis points, citing stronger economic growth and falling unemployment, confounding the expectations of economists who forecast rates were unlikely to change. At a meeting of its Monetary Policy Committee, the bank hiked its overnight deposit rate to 16.75 percent from 14.75 percent and its overnight lending rate to ...