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Cars keep getting better, making disruption harder

Tesla Inc announced its second-quarter results. Those results, along with Elon Musk’s apologies to analysts for his rudeness three months earlier, pushed its stock price up and 2025 bond yields down. During the earnings call, Musk and his colleagues said “improve” or “improvements” 14 times in describing everything from Tesla’s production lines to its in-car computing to its gross margins. ...

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British Airways owner IAG hurt by ‘strikes’, US fare drop

Bloomberg British Airways owner IAG SA’s peak summer season is being spoiled by a combination of air traffic control strikes, exchange-rate swings and a dip in fares on key US routes. IAG shares fell the most in five months on August 3 after walkouts by French controllers pushed its Vueling arm to a wider second-quarter loss following a spate of ...

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Second-hand Airbus superjumbo bumped to discount sector

Bloomberg A second-hand Airbus SE superjumbo will fly for Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA later this month, giving a model once seen as the epitome of luxury a first taste of discount travel. The A380 has been drafted in to operate between London Gatwick airport and New York’s John F. Kennedy hub after the grounding of some of Norwegian’s own Boeing ...

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