London first banned Uber under its buccaneer of a founding chief executive officer, Travis Kalanick — and now for a second time under Kalanick’s successor, Dara Khosrowshahi, who was meant to be the adult in the room. Though the ban won’t be a popular decision among Londoners and many will call it disproportionate, it shows Uber Technologies Inc. has more ...

The number of new international students at US universities fell for the fourth academic year in a row in 2018-2019. But only by a little bit (the new-student number was 0.9% lower than the previous year’s). These data, released by the Institute of International Education, shed a little more light on the question whether the policies and rhetoric of President ...

Australia is edging closer to needing a dose of extra stimulus if it’s to retain its status as the magical land where recessions don’t happen. That juice may take the form of quantitative easing — a once-unthinkable step for a country with a historical preference for budget surpluses and an economy that’s expanded continuously for 28 years. After four quarters ...