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The BOJ revelling in obstinate isolation

  For a guy who professes to be uncomfortable with extreme moves in currency markets, Haruhiko Kuroda certainly doesn’t seem to mind causing them. By doubling down on easy money, the Bank of Japan governor is set on a path that will only further isolate the country from its peers and almost guarantee further erosion in the value of the ...

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Flight cancellations, delays in US top 6,000 on storms

  Bloomberg Just a day after airline executives met with US transportation officials on how to stem flight disruptions, a band of storms triggered thousands of cancellations and delays for beleaguered carriers. More than 6,000 flights were late or scrubbed altogether as of 4:25 pm ET, according to tracking website FlightAware. That comes on top of more than 1,700 cancellations ...

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Boeing delivers US missile interceptor after years of delays

Bloomberg Boeing Co delivered a missile interceptor for US’s ground-based system three years late after overcoming vexing subcontractor quality problems, congressional auditors said. The delivery in December, which wasn’t previously announced, followed “production challenges” because “the boost vehicle contractor mishandled a key avionics component and had to build a new one,” the Government Accountability Office said in its annual report ...

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