I wouldn’t describe Hillary Clinton as a particularly sympathetic character. And yet, I feel for her. The most humiliating moments of her life—her husband’s infidelity, her loss to the least...
Mateusz Morawiecki is the former prime minister of the Republic of Poland. The film “Everything Everywhere All at Once” took the Oscars by storm two years ago, its filmmakers offering...
The oil market feels like a runaway train speeding toward US$100 a barrel. Ask oil traders in Geneva, Singapore, London and Houston, and you hear the same thing: “Buy, buy,...
Microsoft Corp. is going all in on gaming. On Tuesday, the technology behemoth announced an agreement to buy Activision Blizzard Inc. for US$69 billion in cash. If the deal goes...
Chaos at the border is the top issue for Republicans, and their likely nominee promises to launch what he calls “the largest domestic deportation operation in history.” Aides are reportedly...
On the face of it, a time of “pandemic, drought, wildfires, civil unrest, and now war in Europe” doesn’t sound like a great business environment. Unless you’re a commodity trader. The...
In oil markets, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has a reputation a little like the one the Russian armed forces used to have — vast and fearsome, a rival you’d be unwise...
Easter 2022 arrives this week with its usual egg-hunting and chocolate-bunny traditions, but also with some bitter new realities. A fresh outbreak of avian flu in the U.S. has wiped...
Walmart Inc. just highlighted the dark side of inflation. The world’s biggest retailer on Tuesday reported profit that fell short of Wall Street expectations and downgraded its outlook for full-year...
Consumer payments-focused startups Klarna Bank AB, Afterpay Ltd. and Affirm Holdings have a had a good run at changing how people shop and growing rapidly until recently. Now, much bigger...