I’m not selling,” says the chairman of one of Japan’s biggest technology companies. Let me grab some popcorn and a ringside seat for what I hope will be a hotly contested bidding war. Japan’s tech sector is ripe for further mergers and acquisitions. But the rarity of hostile takeovers means most deals feel like they’ve been hammered out over a ...

Most economists and market participants don’t usually spend much time looking at Swedish monetary policy. Today should be different given the decision by the Riksbank — the country’s central bank and the world’s oldest — to part ways with its peers in advanced countries by raising interest rates because of worries about the collateral damage and unintended consequences of an ...

From a political standpoint, 2019 will be remembered as the year President Donald Trump got impeached. From an economic standpoint, however, the year has turned out about as well as he could have hoped for. After being effectively flat since the middle of 2018, the stock market has risen to record highs over the last several months. That performance is ...