Things aren’t so desperate for Huawei Technologies Co. after all.Just over a month ago we were told that the Chinese electronics giant was hunkering down for a drop of as much as 60 million units in overseas handset shipments this year. That was quite a blow, I wrote at the time, considering that consumer devices accounted for 45 percent of ...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the likely successor of Chancellor Angela Merkel, took over as Germany’s defense minister. In a speech to parliament outlining her priorities, AKK, as she is known, said she would “hold fast” to the goal of increasing country’s defense spending to 2 percent of economic output — but that Germany would aim to attain military spending of 1.5 percent ...

When will Boeing Co.’s 737 Max return to the skies? It’s anybody’s guess. The aerospace giant said that it was planning for an early fourth-quarter return for the jet, giving investors hope that it had turned the corner on the crisis that’s engulfed the best-selling plane following two fatal crashes. But in the earnings call, executives threw out an alternative ...