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Apple has been busy ahead of its Pro and Tell event, quietly rolling out a new iPad and updated MacBooks before the main stage even lights up. It's a notable move — seeding the market early rather than saving everything for the spotlight, signaling a company confident enough in its lineup to let the hardware speak first.
Across the Atlantic, Volkswagen is navigating a different kind of turbulence. Workers back home in Germany are pushing back against what they see as an Audi-Trump political alignment, a reminder that brand decisions made in boardrooms for American audiences don't stay contained — they travel, and they land hard with the people building the cars.
And in the world of cryptocurrency, traders have apparently been watching fast food calendars for market signals. The return of the McRib to McDonald's menus had some Bitcoin enthusiasts predicting a price surge, a pattern they believed in deeply enough to trade on. Experts were blunt — there is no correlation at all, none, full stop.
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