Donald Trump doesn’t have to impose sanctions on Russia’s controversial NordStream 2 pipeline to Germany if he wants Europe to buy more US liquefied natural gas. The market is doing his work for him. Increasing competition is already reducing the European Union’s dependence on Russian exports, and US LNG is an increasingly important factor in determining prices. Asked during an ...

China’s overseas M&A isn’t quite dead. But you can forget the acquisition of strategic assets in the West: That $45.5 billion record purchase by China National Chemical Corp. of Swiss agribusiness firm Syngenta AG in 2017 is a thing of the past. With Beijing still worried about capital outflows, and protectionism deepening globally, the value of China’s deals abroad fell ...

The changing nature of food retailing was laid bare last week with lower than expected UK sales growth at Tesco Plc and Amazon.com Inc. expanding its partnership with the smaller British chain Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc. Amazon’s agreement with Morrisons, while still fairly small right now, shows the ambitions of the online giant toward the UK, already one of the ...