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Can’t crypto crowd see the scars from 2017?

Coinbase Global Inc boss Brian Armstrong has long believed that the adoption of digital currencies like Bitcoin would resemble a straight arrow towards progress — much like the internet’s development from a web of interlinked computers to a whole economy of applications and businesses. Yet his angry tweet storm against the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), after its behind-the-scenes ...

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Can Bolsonaro’s sound & fury hide his failures?

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s bet that adoring crowds on Independence Day would help him out of a tough spot didn’t quite go to plan. Tens of thousands did turn out in Sao Paulo and elsewhere, decked in the green-and-yellow flag. He responded with now-familiar attacks on the electoral system, his opponents and the Supreme Court, vowing he would never go ...

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Airbus sales push gains pace as Wizz Air mulls fresh order

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Bloomberg Airbus SE is getting a potential boost from Hungarian discount carrier Wizz Air Holdings Plc’s ambitious plan to catapult itself out of the pandemic ahead of rivals. The Budapest-based airline is weighing a purchase of at least 100 Airbus narrow-body jets, according to people familiar with the discussions. Such a deal would top up one of the largest-ever aircraft ...

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