It took Tesla Inc. longer than usual to release its first-quarter results on April 24. One can see why. As the sales numbers foreshadowed (again, with an unusual delay), revenue dropped more than a third versus the prior quarter, although it was still up a third over a year earlier. Automotive gross profit margin came in at just under 20 ...

The “Sasda” dream is over. Almost a year since British grocery giant J Sainsbury Plc clinched a clever 7.3 billion pound ($9.4 billion) deal to buy Walmart Inc.’s Asda, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has blocked the transaction. Both companies have agreed to walk away. The CMA is wrong to take such a harsh line, which went even further ...

President Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit has come up short. Three months after the US recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as president and rolled out far-reaching energy sanctions, Nicolas Maduro remains entrenched atop his militarised regime. Disappointed, the US administration has begun lashing out. Yet its new moves will divide the dozens of countries that have joined an anti-Maduro coalition, making ...