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Aviation tycoon Neeleman eager to buy new Airbus jet

Bloomberg Airline entrepreneur David Neeleman said he’d be at the front of the line for a proposed new longer-range Airbus SE jetliner if it’s launched at next month’s Paris Air Show, as widely expected. “We’d definitely be interested in that airplane,” Neeleman said of the Airbus A321XLR, which wouldn’t start deliveries until 2023. “I wish it was coming sooner,” he ...

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Will Trump ease up on Huawei? Don’t be so sure

With the Huawei case, as with so many other Trump administration gambits, the puzzling question is whether the president is using tough tactics to make a deal — or whether he really means to put China’s most powerful telecommunications company on what’s informally known as the “kill list” by denying it US technology. US financial markets have been fairly calm ...

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Greece hands out a lesson to Italy

The European Parliament elections were meant to mark the high point of populism in Europe. Instead, they may have led to the political demise of its earliest champion: Alexis Tsipras. Greece’s prime minister, who stunned the continent with a double win in consecutive general elections in 2015, has called a snap vote that will probably be held at the beginning ...

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