General Motors chief executive Mary Barra came out strongly on Tuesday for regulations requiring the retention of steering wheels and foot pedals in self-driving cars.
Global airlines should make more money than previously expected this year, the International Air Transport Association said, helped by low oil prices and work by airlines to fill planes and drive ancillary revenues.
For the past three years, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could usually count on surging corporate earnings to back up the case that his policies were turning around Japan.
